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BRIEF  DESCRIPTION 

of  the 

CHAMBERLAIN    COLLECTION 

OF  AUTOGRAPHS 


now  deposited  in 


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PUBLISHED  BY  THE  TRUSTEEvS. 

1897. 


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THE   CHAMBERLAIN   COLLECTION 
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PREFACE. 

Some  time  must  pass  before  the  completion 
of  an  adequate  description  and  analysis  of 
the  Chamberlain  Collection  of  Autographs. 
Meanwhile  it  is  desirable  that  somewhat 
be  known  of  its  size  and  scope,  particularly 
for  the  information  of  libraries  and  students 
at  a  distance.  A  portion,  however,  is  already 
exposed  to  public  view  in  a  series  of  framed 
documents  and  tablets.  Placed  as  these 
tablets  are,  in  a  position  to  attract  the  notice 
of  younger  students  of  American  history, 
they  are  now  rendered  most  intelligible  and 
useful  by  historical  prefaces  which  introduce 
their  titles  throughout  the  following  pages. 
In  a  few  months  it  is  proposed  to  print  in 
separate  form  the  full  text  of  the  four  great 
documents,  mentioned  more  fully  beyond,  and 
with  them  to  reprint  the  prefaces  to  them,  as 
well  as  the  descriptions  of  the  tablets. 

The  account  which  here  follows  of  the 
general  collection  coincides  in  part  with  an 
article  written  a  few  years  ago  for  the  Boston 
Sunday  Herald,  by  the  Rev.  Julius  H.  Ward, 
from  memoranda  furnished  by  the  Hon.  Mel- 
len  Chamberlain. 


In  the  preparation  of  this  pamphlet,  es- 
pecially of  the  part  relating  to  the  framed 
documents  and  tablets,  the  Library  has  se- 
cured the  assistance  of  Edwin  M.  Bacon,  Esq., 
who  has  gained  an  intimate  knowledge  of  the 
Collection  by  his  classification  of  the  material 
therein. 

Lindsay  Swift, 
Editor  of  Library  Publications. 


VI 


THE 
CHAMBERLAIN  COLLECTION. 


The  collection  of  historical  documents,^ 
manuscripts,  autographs,  portraits,  'and  en- 
gravings, together  with  a  few  printed  vol- 
umes, belonging  to  the  Hon.  Mellen  Cham- 
berlain, and  proposed  to  be  left,  by  testa- 
mentary bequest,  to  the  Boston  Public  Li- 
brary, is  now  deposited  in  the  library.  It  is 
arranged  in  two  parts:  the  general  collection 
and  the  series  of  framed  tablets.  The  latter 
consists  of  four  great  documents:  the  Address 
to  the  King,  1774;  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, 1776;  the  Articles  of  Confederation, 
1777;  and  the  Constitution,  1787;  and  of 
sixty-three  framed  tablets,  made  up  of  auto- 
graph signatures  cut  from  receipts,  franked 
envelopes,  or  from  historical  documents  of 
no  intrinsic  value,  here  grouped,  and  illus- 
trated by  portraits,  biographical  sketches, 
and  historical  notes.  The  tablets,  which  are 
described  in  detail  below,  are  displayed  on 


the  walls  of  the  room  for  Younger  Readers, 
off  the  Chavannes  corridor. 

THE  GENERAL  COLLECTION. 

The  general  collection  occupies  a  room 
opening  from  the  Librarian's  room  and  es- 
pecially fitted  to  receive  it.  When  bound 
and  catalogued,  the  collection  will  be  more 
fully  open  to  examination  than  is  now  prac- 
ticable. It  consists  of  bound  and  unbound 
vqlume3'  of  manuscripts,  and  of  printed 
books,  expanded  and  extra-illustrated;  in  all, 
mor»^  than  three  hundred  and  fifty  volumes, 
conveniently  to  be  divided  for  the  purpose  of 
description,  into  American  and  European  sec- 
tions, and  unclassified  material. 

THE  AMERICAN  SECTION. 

In  the  American  section,  relating  to  the 
colonial,  provincial,  and  revolutionary  peri- 
ods, are  twelve  volumes  of  Massachusetts  his- 
torical manuscripts;  three  devoted  to  New 
Hampshire,  from  the  first  settlement;  fifteen 
to  famous  men,  from  all  the  colonies,  con- 
nected with  the  Revolution;  three  to  the 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence; 
and  five  to  Washingtoniana.  One  volume  is 
given  to  the  prominent  Quakers  who  suffered 
persecution  in  Boston,  in  1660;  one  to  Bur- 
goyne's  campaign,  in  1777;  and  one  to  the 
actors  in  the  Salem  witchcraft  tragedy.    Five 


royal-octavo  volumes,  richly  bound,  contain 
letters,  documents,  manuscripts,  and  portraits, 
relating  to  Benjamin  Franklin,  to  John  Ad- 
ams, to  John  Hancock,  to  Samuel  Adams  and 
Joseph  Warren,  and  to  those  engaged,  on 
both  sides,  in  the  battles  of  Lexington,  Con- 
cord, and  Bunker  Hill. 

Among  the  volumes  relating  to  this  early 
period,  some  merit  particular  description. 
The  volume  given  up  to  the  Quakers  per- 
secuted in  Boston  contains  the  unpublished 
letter  which  William  Dyer,  the  husband 
of  the  unfortunate  Mary  Dyer,  wrote  to 
the  Court  of  Assistants  in  1659,  pleading  for 
the  life  of  his  wife;  also  the  original  ''Warn- 
ing" of  Margaret  Smith  —  the  original  of 
Whittier's  "Margaret  Smith's  Journal"  — 
''given  forth  in  the  House  of  Correction  in 
Boston,  New  England,  December  1660,"  and 
other  papers  respecting  the  treatment  of  the 
Quakers  by  the  Massachusetts  authorities. 

The  five  volumes  relating  to  Washington 
may  properly  be  classed  with  the  series  of  the 
Revolution,  although  they  include  letters  and 
documents  written  by  Washington  between 
the  age  of  eighteen  and  the  closing  years  of 
his  life,  with  letters  and  portraits  of  his  con- 
temporaries associated  with  him  both  in  mili- 
tary and  civil  affairs.  Among  these  contem- 
poraries represented  are  Braddock,  Lord  Lou- 
don, Baron  Steuben,  the  titular  Lord  Stirling, 
Israel    and    Rufus    Putnam,    Knox,    Gates, 


Charles  Lee,  Henry  Lee,  Greene,  Sullivan, 
Arnold,  Lord  and  Sir  William  Howe,  Sir 
Henry  Clinton,  Cornwallis,  Lafayette,  Ro- 
chambeau,  de  Grasse,  Duportail,  Earl  Bu- 
chan,  Luzerne,  Genet,  Jefferson,  Hamilton, 
Randolph,  Wolcott  and  Habersham.  One 
volume  is  made  up  of  the  various  portraits, 
prints  of  busts  and  monuments  of  Washing- 
ton, with  portraits  and  autographs  of  the  dis- 
tinguished artists  to  whom  he  sat.  It  contains 
every  known  portrait  of  Washington  which 
has  any  merit  as  a  likeness  or  as  a  work  of  art. 

The  volume  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence  contains  a  very  curious 
series  of  about  twenty  autograph  poems, 
which  George  Wythe  of  Virginia  and  William 
Ellery  of  Rhode  Island  addressed  to  each 
other,  and  probably  composed  while  the 
question  of  independence  was  under  discus- 
sion in  the  Congress  of  1776. 

Memorials  of  various  sorts  are  collected  in 
the  volumes  relating  to  the  unfortunate  ex- 
pedition against  Canada  in  1690,  which  was 
paid  for  by  the  first  issue  of  paper  money 
instead  of  by  expected  booty;  to  the  capture 
of  Louisburg  in  1745,  which  was  followed  by 
the  expatriation  of  the  Acadians;  and  to  the 
proposed  attack  on  Crown  Point  in  1755.  In 
one  or  the  other  of  these  expeditions  Gov- 
ernor Shirley,  the  Pepperrells,  Commodore 
Warren,  and  Colonel  John  Winslow  were 
prominent.     The  period  of  the  Stamp  Act 


and  the  later  military  actions  during  the 
Revolution,  at  Bennington,  Saratoga,  Stony- 
Point,  in  the  Southern  Campaigns,  and  at  the 
crowning  victory  at  Yorktown,  are  illustrated 
by  letters  and  documents;  as  are  also  Naval, 
Diplomatic,  and  Congressional  affairs. 

The  beginnings  of  the  Revolution,  particu- 
larly the  part  played  by  Massachusetts,  are 
illustrated  in  the  bound  volumes  of  letters  of 
Franklin,  Hancock,  the  Adamses  and  others. 
In  these  are  numerous  documents,  in  manu- 
script or  printed,  relating  to  the  "Boston 
Massacre,"  including  the  action  of  the  Town, 
the  General  Court,  and  popular  assemblies. 
The  proceedings  at  the  time  of  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  tea  in  1773  are  fully  illustrated  by 
rare  printed  placards.  Among  other  papers  are 
original  letters  to  the  selectmen  written  by 
Samuel  Adams  and  others;  the  resolutions  of 
the  Boston  Town  meeting  in  Adams's  hand- 
writing; and  letters  of  Richard  Clarke  &  Sons 
to  John  Hancock,  respecting  the  cargo  of  tea 
consigned  to  them.  In  the  collection  are  also 
many  letters  of  Committees  of  Correspond- 
ence; non-importation  agreements  in  manu- 
script; papers  relating  to  the  treatment  of 
loyalists  before  the  outbreak  of  hostilities,  and 
letters  on  questions  of  the  day,  by  the  Otises, 
father  and  son,  the  Quincys,  senior  and  junior, 
Joseph  and  James  Warren,  Paul  Revere  and 
others,  together  with  political  hand-bills, 
broadsides  and  caricatures. 


The  Lexington  and  Concord  fights,  and 
the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  are  fully  illustrated 
by  original  contemporary  letters  and  docu- 
ments interleaved  in  the  monographs  printed 
in  1875,  commemorating  the  centennials  of 
those  events.  These  manuscripts  include  the 
name  of  nearly  every  man  of  distinction  found 
on  either  side  of  the  contest,  among  them 
General  Gage,  Lieut. -Colonel  Smith,  who  led 
the  main  party  of  the  British,  Lord  Percy, 
who  brought  up  the  relieving  columns,  Paul 
Revere  and  William  Dawes,  who  carried  the 
alarm  to  Middlesex,  James  Barrett  and  Major 
Buttrick,  who  were  conspicuous  on  the  Amer- 
ican side,  Gerry,  Orne  and  Lee,  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  and  Supplies,  who  escaped 
capture  by  the  British  only  by  a  precipitate 
flight  from  their  beds  at  the  Black  Horse 
Tavern  in  Menotomy  (Arlington),  Joseph 
Warren,  and  the  Rev.  Jonas  Clarke,  in  whose 
house  John  Hancock  and  Samuel  Adams  had 
been  entertained  the  night  before  the  fight. 
One  of  the  most  interesting  documents  here 
is  the  original  bill  of  Dr.  Joseph  Fisk  for  med- 
ical services  rendered  to  the  "King's  Troops 
on  the  19th  of  April." 

The  monograph  of  Bunker-Hill,  June  17, 
1775,  bound  with  that  of  Lexington  and  Con- 
cord, is  even  more  fully  illustrated,  and  con- 
tains several  letters  and  documents  written 
on  the  day  of  the  battle  and  relating  to  it. 
One  is  a  letter  of  Israel  Putnam  to  the  Com- 


mittee  of  Supplies  relative  to  forwarding 
eighteen  barrels  of  powder  from  Connecticut. 
Here  also  is  found  the  letter  of  Daniel  Web- 
ster correcting  the  proof  sheets  of  his  oration 
at  the  laying  of  the  cornerstone  of  Bunker- 
Hill  monument,  and  the  original  invitation  to 
deliver  the  oration  on  the  completion  of  the 
monument.  On  blank  pages  of  the  volume 
Whittier  has  transcribed  his  ''Lexington, 
1775,"  Emerson,  his  famous  Concord  Bridge 
hymn,  and  Holmes,  his  "Grandmother's  Story 
of  Bunker  Hill  Battle." 

Following  the  Revolution,  there  are  me- 
morials of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1787,  and  of  the  successive  administrations 
from  Washington  to  Grant.  In  these  are 
grouped  the  presidents,  cabinets,  diploma- 
tists, judges,  speakers  of  the  House,  and  the 
leading  statesmen  in  both  houses  of  Congress. 

American  artists  occupy  six  volumes; 
American  inventors,  one  volume;  men  of  af- 
fairs, twenty-three  volumes;  Massachusetts 
judges  and  lawyers,  eight  volumes;  miscel- 
lanies, twenty-three  volumes;  historic  houses 
of  the  United  States,  illustrated  with  auto- 
graphs, views  and  portraits,  two  volumes. 
Duyckinck's  "Cyclopaedia  of  American  Liter- 
ature" is  expanded  into  forty-seven  volumes 
by  portraits,  autograph  letters  and  original 
manuscripts  of  poems  or  other  writings  of  the 
greater  part  of  the  authors  treated  in  that 
work,  and  of  many  others  incidentally  men- 


tioned  in  its  biographical  notices.  This  work 
is  supplemented  by  twenty-three  volumes  of 
literary  characters  not  included  in  Duyckinck. 
In  the  volumes  devoted  to  American  artists 
is  found  every  memorable  name  from  Copley 
to  recent  times. 

THE  EUROPEAN  SECTION. 

The  European  section  includes  four  vol- 
umes devoted  to  sovereigns,  thirty  to  men  of 
affairs,  eleven  to  men  of  letters,  one  to  musi- 
cians, two  to  actors  and  actresses,  six  to 
artists,  two  to  philosophers,  four  to  scientific 
men,  ten  to  the  period  of  the  Revolution  in 
France,  and  six  to  Shakespeare. 

All  the  sovereigns  of  England  from  Henry 
VII.  to  Victoria,  except  Edward  VI.,  are  in- 
cluded; of  France  from  Louis  XII.  to  Louis 
XVI.;  representatives  of  the  French  Direc- 
tory, the  Consulate,  the  First  empire,  and  of 
the  Bonaparte  family;  and  such  rulers  of  other 
nations  (to  mention  only  some  of  the  most 
famous)  as  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  the  Philips 
of  Spain,  Gustavus  Adolphus,  Charles  XII., 
Frederick  the  Great,  Maria  Theresa,  Cather- 
ine II.  and  Alexander  I.  of  Russia.  Among 
the  volumes  given  to  men  of  affairs,  letters  or 
documents  are  found  of  the  earls  of  Essex,  of 
Leicester,  Fairfax,  Sully,  Mazarin,  Colbert, 
Richelieu,  Coke,  Cecil,  Fox,  George  Gren- 
ville.  Lord  North,  the  younger  Pitt,  Grattan 
and  his  eminent  contemporaries,  and  of  such 
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of  the  French  revolutionary  characters  as 
Robespierre,  Danton,  Camot,  Marat,  Necker, 
and  his  daughter,  Madame  de  Stael.  Among 
names  distinguished  in  military  affairs  are  Pic- 
colomini,  Turenne,  Vauban,  Peterborough, 
Eugene,  Marlborough,  Wolfe,  and  Welling- 
ton; Napoleon  and  his  marshals  form  a 
group  by  themselves.  Among  the  great  di- 
vines represented  are  Melanchthon,  Calvin, 
Bossuet,  Fenelon,  Jeremy  Taylor,  Bishop 
Burnet,  Berkeley,  Dr.  Samuel  Clarke,  War- 
burton,  Hurd,  Whately,  and  others  equally 
eminent;  among  men  of  science  and  inventors, 
Newton,  Watt,  the  Herschels,  Faraday,  the 
Stephensons,  and  the  great  French  and 
German  astronomers;  among  philosophers 
and  metaphysicians,  Leibnitz,  Bayle,  d'Alem- 
bert,  Diderot,  Erasmus,  Darwin,  Hutcheson, 
Locke,  Hume,  Voltaire,  Condorcet,  Rousseau, 
St.  Simon,  Kant,  Marmontel,  Maupertuis, 
Richard  Price,  Baron  Grimm,  Fichte,  Hegel, 
Helvetius,  Herder,  Hobbes,  Lotze,  Adam 
Smith,  Reid,  Priestley,  Schelling,  Schlegel, 
Schopenhauer,  Sir  William  Hamilton,  John 
Stuart  Mill,  Isaac  Taylor,  Cousin,  and  Her- 
bert Spencer. 

Among  continental  and  British  artists, 
represented  by  signed  or  attributed  specimens 
of  their  work  in  original  drawings  or  pen  and 
ink  sketches,  are  found  the  names  of  such 
eminent  painters,  sculptors,  and  architects  as 
Domenichino,  Del  Sarto,  Correggio,  Holbein, 


Paul  Veronese,  Andrea  Sacchi.  Van  Dyck, 
Rembrandt,  Gabriel  Metsu,  Sir  Peter  Lely, 
Sir  Christopher  Wren,  Sir  James  Thornhill, 
George  Vertue,  Hogarth,  Richard  Wilson, 
Campagniola,  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  George 
Romney,  James  Barry,  James  Northcote, 
William  Blake,  Cruikshank,  Landseer,  Millais, 
Thorwaldsen,  Overbeck,  Winckelmann,  Dela- 
roche,  and  Delacroix.  Among  musicians, 
composers  and  performers,  are  the  names, 
some  of  them  accompanied  by  manuscripts 
of  compositions  and  all  with  portraits,  of 
Bach,  Handel,  Haydn,  Mozart,  Beethoven, 
Auber,  Schneider,  Weber,  Sontag,  Meyer- 
beer, Schumann,  Wagner,  Sir  Henry  R. 
Bishop,  Jennie  Lind,  and  Ole  Bull;  amonjs: 
actors,  of  Garrick,  the  Kembles,  Talma,  Mrs. 
Siddons,  Mrs.  Inchbald,  Macready,  Buck- 
stone,  John  Maddison  Morton  (the  farce 
writer),  Junius  Brutus  Booth,  Forrest,  Charles 
Kean,  Vandenhoff,  Edwin  Booth,  and  John 
Brougham. 

The  volumes  of  Shakesperiana  include  au- 
tograph letters  of  nearly  all  the  Shakesperian 
editors  and  scholars  —  Edmund  Malone,  Mrs. 
Montagu,  Bishop  Percy,  Thomas  Tyrwhitt, 
Richard  Farmer,  Dr.  Nathan  Drake,  Charles 
Knight,  Sir  Harris  Nicholas,  George  Steevens, 
Isaac  Reed,  Anna  Seward,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Bowdler,  Alexander  Chalmers,  Francis  Douce, 
Ireland  the  forger,  Alexander  Dyce,  James  O. 


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Halliwell,  J.  Payne  Collier,  Joseph  Ritson, 
and  Joseph  Haslewood. 

In  the  European  section,  as  in  the  American, 
it  has  often  been  found  practicable  by  the 
collector  to  group  letters  and  other  interest- 
ing matters  under  a  general  heading,  as ''Some 
Eminent  Scotchmen,"  or  round  some  dis- 
tinguished name,  as  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Francis 
Jeffrey,  and  Lord  Macaulay,  concerning  whom 
notable  illustrated  monographs  have  appeared 
in  magazines.  These  monographs,  inlaid  to 
uniform  size,  have  been  prepared  to  receive 
additional  illustration  in  the  form  of  letters, 
not  only  of  the  principal  characters  written 
about,  but  also  of  many  who  are  incidentally 
mentioned.  For  example:  in  the  "Eminent 
Scotchmen"  series  are  found,  in  connection 
with  the  descriptive  letter-press,  an  original 
poem  of  Allan  Ramsay,  letters  of  James  Thom- 
son, author  of ''The  Seasons,"  of  Burns  (a  poem 
signed),  of  Thomas  Reid,  David  Hume,  Dr. 
William  Cullen,  Dr.  William  Hunter,  Hus^h 
Blair,  Adam  Smith,  Adam  Ferguson,  Dr. 
John  Moore,  James  Beattie,  James  Watt, 
James  Macpherson,  "translator"  of  Ossian, 
Henry  Mackenzie,  Mrs.  Anne  Grant,  and 
others. 

The  other  Scotch  monographs  must  be 
treated  more  concisely.  The  principal  men  of 
the  coterie  of  which  Scott  was  the  centre, 
those  associated  with  Constable,  who  founded, 
and  with  Jeffrey  and  his  associates,  who  for 


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many  years  carried  on  the  ''Edinburgh  Re- 
view," and  those  associated  with  William 
Blackwood,  of  ''Blackwood's  Magazine,"  are 
respectively  represented  by  autographs,  and 
in  some  cases  by  leaves  of  the  original  copy 
of  one  or  more  of  their  pubUshed  articles. 
The  names  of  some  of  those  thus  associated 
are  Archibald  Constable,  Francis  Horner, 
Francis  Jeffrey,  Sydney  Smith,  Lord  Brougham, 
John  Ballantyne,  Dugald  Stewart,  Thomas 
Campbell,  James  Hogg,  William  Blackwood, 
John  Gait,  Allan  Cunningham,  John  Wilson, 
George  Combe,  Alexander  Carlyle,  Basil 
Hall,  J.  R.  McCulloch,  Edward  Irving,  Lock- 
hart,  Carlyle,  David  M.  Moir  ("Delta"), 
Motherwell,  Dr.  John  Brown,  Dr.  Thomas 
Chalmers,  Thomas  Guthrie,  Robert  and  Wil- 
liam Chambers. 

In  the  Macaulay  monograph  are  bio- 
graphical notices  of  the  Rev.  Zachary  Ma- 
caulay, father  of  Lord  Macaulay,  and  of  many 
of  the  members  of  the  "Clapham  Set."  There 
are  letters  of  Granville  Sharp,  Hannah  More, 
Bishop  Percy,  Catherine  Macaulay,  Dr.  John- 
son, Mrs.  Thrale,  Winthrop  M.Praed,  Bulwer, 
Jeffrey,  Samuel  Rogers,  John  Wilson,  James 
Montgomery,  and  of  others,  in  some  way  asso- 
ciated with  the  Macaulay  family.  This  vol- 
ume is  supplemented  by  autograph  letters  of 
some  of  the  subjects  of  Macaulay's  Essays, 
including  Fanny  Burney,  Lord  Burleigh, 
Francis  Bacon,  Sir  William  Temple,  Chatham, 

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Walpole,  Warren  Hastings,  Sir  Philip  Fran- 
cis, Sir  James  Mackintosh,  Lord  Holland, 
Southey,  Hallam,  Croker,  and  Gladstone. 

UNCLASSIFIED. 

Besides  the  classified  collection  is  a  con- 
siderable mass  of  manuscripts  of  great  his- 
torical or  literary  value,  awaiting  arrange- 
ment, in  which  are  in  particular  two  papers 
of  more  than  ordinary  interest.  The  earliest 
is  a  printed  broadside  in  folio,  announcing 
the  acting  of  the  "Tragedy  of  Zara"  in  Faneuil 
Hall  "by  a  society  of  ladies  and  gentlemen." 
The  play  was  given  in  the  winter  of  1775- 
76,  when  the  British  army  under  Sir  William 
Howe,  and  many  loyalists,  were  held  in  Boston 
by  Washington's  army.  The  play-bill  is  very 
rare,  and  this  copy  of  it  probably  unique  in 
having  on  its  back  a  finely  written  cast  of  the 
characters. 

The  other  paper  is  also  very  rare,  since  it 
is  one  of  the  only  two  of  the  same  kind  said 
to  have  been  removed  from  their  place  in  the 
days  of  the  Commune.  It  is  a  pay-roll  of  the 
members  of  the  French  National  Institute, 
December,  1801.  Among  the  receipting  sig- 
natures are  the  names  of  Legendre,  Delambre, 
Lacroix,  Carnot,  Cuvier,  Lamarck,  Jussieu, 
Saint  Pierre,  abbe  Sicard,  Merlin,  Cassini 
the  astronomer,  Vauquelin  the  chemist,  abbe 
Sabatier  the  famous  surgeon,  Ducis  the 
French  dramatist,  and  the  following  famous 

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painters  or  sculptors,  —  David,  Regnault, 
Julien,  Roland,  and  Houdon.  About  one  hun- 
dred signatures  appear  on  this  pay-roll,  every 
one  of  which  was  written  by  a  man  of  dis- 
tinction. 

PRINTED  BOOKS. 

Though  the  Chamberlain  Collection  con- 
sists mainly  of  autograph  letters  and  docu- 
ments, it  includes  also  several  volumes  bearing 
the  autographs  of  famous  men;  and  others, 
besides  many  pamphlets,  which  are  the  in- 
scribed gifts  of  authors.  Among  the  former 
is  a  copy  of  Scaliger's  Poetics,  with  two  au- 
tographs of  Pope;  another  entitled  "Desiderii 
Erasmi  Flores,"  date  of  1645,  with  Mather 
Byles's  autograph  on  the  title  page;  another 
made  up  of  Thomas  Moore's  autograph  notes 
for  a  History  of  Ireland;  another,  and  perhaps 
the  most  interesting  of  them,  is  the  little 
duodecimo  volume  in  which  Coleridge,  Charles 
Lamb,  and  Lloyd,  made  their  venture  in  pub- 
lishing their  poems,  in  1797.  This  was  Lamb's 
own  copy  in  which  he  transcribed  at  the  end 
of  his  printed  poems  his  sonnet  to  "Miss 
Kelly,"  signed  '^C.  Lamb,  Sept.  1819."  He 
at  first  inadvertently  wrote  this  sonnet  on  the 
blank  half  page  separating  the  poems  of  Lloyd 
from  his  own.  Discovering  his  mistake,  he 
cut  out  the  leaf,  and  in  doing  so  also  excised 
two  stanzas  of  Lloyd's  poems  printed  on  the 
reverse  of  the  leaf.    To  restore  these  stanzas 

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he  copied  them  in  his  own  hand  on  the  mar- 
gins, and  rewrote  his  sonnet  in  its  proper 
place,  as  it  now  appears. 

"The  Courtship  of  Miles  Standish,  and 
other  Poems,"  by  Longfellow,  is,  perhaps,  the 
most  interesting  volume  in  this  part  of  the 
collection.  The  edition  is  the  EngHsh  duo- 
decimo, illustrated  by  Sir  John  Gilbert.  It  is 
inlaid  to  foHo  size  to  accommodate  a  letter, 
which  must  be  regarded  as  the  most  interest- 
ing document  of  the  early  Plymouth  Colony. 
The  volume  contains  a  portrait  and  character- 
istic note  of  Gilbert.  In  it  are  also  to  be  found 
many  photographic  and  engraved  portraits  of 
Longfellow  selected  by  him  from  a  large  num- 
ber from  which  he  excluded  eight  or  ten  as 
"not  altogether  pleasing."  These  latter, 
though  not  included,  have  been  preserved. 
The  portraits  included  all  bear  Longfellow's 
autograph,  and  the  text  is  preceded  by  the 
opening  stanza  in  his  autograph.  The  letter 
inserted  in  the  volume  is  a  well-preserved 
folio,  dated  February  6,  163 1/2,  of  con- 
siderable historical  importance,  addressed  to 
Governor  John  Winthrop.  Winthrop's  in- 
dorsement and  Bradford's  seal  are  on  the 
fourth  page.  It  is  in  Bradford's  hand- 
writing, signed  by  Bradford  himself,  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Prence,  Dr.  William  Fuller, 
the  famous  physician  not  only  of  Plymouth 
but  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony  as  well,  and 
by  two  of  the  principal  characters  of  the  poem, 

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—  Miles  Standish  and  John  Alden.  Besides 
these  autographs  the  volume  contains  letters 
of  Governor  Winslow,  Cotton  Mather  and 
others,  and  many  engraved  illustrations  of 
scenes  and  events  referred  to  in  the  poem. 

Another  book,  enlarged  in  a  similar  way,  is 
the  "Salem  Witchcraft,'^  by  Charles  W.  Up- 
ham,  in  two  volumes.  It  contains  many  of 
the  original  complaints,  depositions,  execu- 
tions, and  other  papers  used  at  the  trials  of 
those  charged  with  witchcraft,  together  with 
documents  or  letters  of  many  persons  who, 
like  Cotton  Mather,  were  conspicuous  in  that 
delusion. 

SKETCH   OF  MELLEN 
CHAMBERLAIN. 

It  is  fitting  that  a  few  facts  of  the  life  of 
Judge  Chamberlain,  and  of  the  conditions 
under  which  the  collection  was  made,  should 
be  recorded  here.  Mellen  Chamberlain  was 
born,  June  4,  1821,  at  Pembroke,  N.  H.  In 
1844  he  graduated,  with  high  rank,  from  Dart- 
mouth College.  After  teaching  for  several 
years  in  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  in  1846  he  entered 
the  Harvard  Law  school,  and  soon  after  was 
appointed  Librarian  of  that  department  of 
the  university.  In  1849  ^^  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  and  in  June  of  the  same  year  became 
a  citizen  of  Chelsea,  where  he  still  resides. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  House 
of  Representatives  in  1858-59;  of  the  Senate, 
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1863-64,  the  second  year  serving  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  the  judiciary;  an  Asso- 
ciate Justice  of  the  Municipal  Court  of  Boston 
from  June  29,  1866  to  Dec.  i,  1870;  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  that  court  from  that  date  to  August, 
1878;  and  Librarian  of  the  Boston  Public 
Library  from  August,  1878  to  October,  1890. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  was  elected  a 
member  (the  youngest  ever  chosen)  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Historical  Society.  He  is  a 
corresponding  member  of  the  New  York, 
Connecticut,  and  Pennsylvania  historical  so- 
cieties, and  a  member  of  .the  American  acad- 
emy, the  New  England  Historic  genealogical 
society,  and  the  Massachusetts  Historical  so- 
ciety. The  following  are  among  his  contribu- 
tions to  American  historical  work:  "J^^^^  Ad- 
ams, the  statesman  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion" (1884);  A  review  of  McMaster's  History 
(Andover  Review,  June,  1886);  The  Revolu- 
tion impending  (Narrative  and  critical  history 
of  America,  vol.  6) ;  and  a  review  of  Palfrey's 
History  of  New  England  (The  Nation,  July 
10,  1890).  Since  his  retirement  from  his  office 
in  the  Boston  Public  Library,  which  he  re- 
signed on  October  i,  1890,  by  reason  of  ad- 
vancing age  and  impaired  health.  Judge  Cham- 
berlain has  been  engaged  on  a  history  of 
Chelsea,  to  which  he  had  committed  himself 
by  acceptance  of  a  request  made  by  the  City 
Government. 

This  collection  was  begun  at  a  time  when 

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the  present  interest,  and  the  competition  re- 
sulting, had  not  yet  developed.  As  a  conse- 
quence, not  only  signatures  and  letters,  but 
historical  documents  of  considerable  import- 
ance, were  often  to  be  had  for  the  asking. 
Even  in  public  offices  a  disregard  of  historical 
papers  led  to  their  disposal  in  ways  which  put 
them  easily  into  the  hands  of  collectors. 
Judge  Chamberlain  and  the  late  Dr.  George 
H.  Moore,  of  the  Lenox  Library,  both  bene- 
fited, even  as  early  as  when  at  school  together 
in  Concord,  N.  H.,  by  this  disregard  and  pre- 
vailing indifference. 

Later,  association  with  Dr.  John  Farmer, 
the  genealogist,  at  that  time  employed  by  the 
state  of  New  Hampshire  to  arrange  its  ar- 
chives, widened  and  strengthened  Judge 
Chamberlain's  interest.  It  was  his  good  for- 
tune, also,  to  have  for  correspondents  several 
famous  collectors,  among  others  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Sprague,  of  Albany,  I.  K.  Tefft,  Esq.,  of 
Savannah,  and  Robert  Gilmor,  Esq.,  of  Bal- 
timore. 

Judge  Chamberlain  has  always  been  a  man 
of  affairs.  Notwithstanding,  however,  his 
devotion  to  the  main  business  of  his  life,  he 
has  maintained  his  interest  in  this  collection 
of  autographs  and  historical  manuscripts, 
until  to-day  the  Chamberlain  collection,  while 
it  is  strong  in  general  interest,  is  unrivalled 
in  the  scope  and  variety  of  its  material  relating 
to  New  England. 
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AUTOGRAPHS  FROM  THE 
CHAMBERLAIN   COLLECTION. 

[Mounted  on  the  south  wall  of  the  Room  for 
Younger  Readers.] 

Framed  Documents;  Tablets  of  autographs,  with  il- 
lustrative portraits,  prints  and  text;  and  Seals. 

The  Tablets,  as  now  exhibited,  are  surmounted  by 
four  Documents  which  marked  the  beginning  of  the 
American  Revolution  by  all  the  colonies,  their  declara- 
tion of  independence,  their  first  attempt  at  making  a 
general  government,  and  its  consummation  by  the  Con- 
stitution of  1787.  These  are  the  Address  to  the  King 
signed  by  the  Congress  of  1774,  one  of  the  few  great 
papers  of  that  body;  the  Declaration  of  Independence; 
the  Articles  of  Confederation;  and  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States. 

To  these  Documents  have  been  affixed  the  auto- 
graphs (only  in  a  few  cases  in  fac-simile)  of  the  signers. 
These  signatures  were  secured  by  cutting  them  from 
franks,  deeds,  commissions  and  other  papers  of  little 
or  no  importance.  When  attached  to  letters  or  docu- 
ments these  several  groups  of  autographs  are  doubt- 
less found  in  all  great  collections;  but  in  the  form  in 
which  they  are  seen  in  the  Chamberlain  Collection,  are 
probably  unique.  The  first,  third  and  fourth  Docu- 
ments were  printed  by  Judge  Chamberlain  to  conform 
in  size  and  form  with  the  fac-simile  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  in  order  that,  to  all  of  them,  might  be 
attached  original  signatures  of  their  respective  signers. 

These  four  Documents  are  too  long  to  print  entire 
here.  Only  titles  and  the  beginning  and  end  of  each 
are  given  below;  but  it  is  intended  to  present  the  full 
text  in  another  form. 

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DOCUMENT   A. 

Address  to  the  King  by  the  Congress  of  1774. 

On  December  16,  1773,  the  inhabitants  of  Boston 
assembled  at  the  Old  South  Church  to  act  about  sev- 
eral cargoes  of  teas  shipped  to  that  port  by  the  East 
India  Company  of  English  merchants,  which  the  Bos- 
ton people  determined  should  not  be  landed.  Finding 
that  the  teas  would  not  be  sent  back  to  England,  the 
meeting  dissolved  and  fifty  men  disguised  as  Indians 
went  to  the  wharf  where  the  tea  ships  lay  and  threw 
the  teas  overboara.  When  the  news  of  these  proceed- 
ings reached  England,  Parliament,  to  punish  the  people 
of  Boston  for  these  riotous  acts,  on  March  28,  1774, 
passed  the  "Boston  Bill,"  which  closed  the  town  as  a 
port  of  entry  and  caused  great  distress  to  the  inhab- 
itants. About  the  same  time  Parliament  passed  a  bill 
radically  changing  the  charter  of  Massachusetts.  These 
measures  afitected  all  the  colonies  and  aroused  their 
resentment.  To  express  this  popular  feeling  and  to 
pass  retaliatory  measures,  a  General  Congress  of  the 
colonies  assembled  at  Philadelphia,  September  5,  1774, 
and  continued  in  session  nearly  eight  weeks,  during 
which  it  formed  a  "Plan  of  Association"  against  im- 
portation or  consumption  of  English  goods,  and  against 
exportation  of  Colonial  products  to  England.  It  also 
prepared  addresses  to  the  people  of  Great  Britain,  to 
those  of  the  British  colonies,  and  to  the  inhabitants  of 
Quebec;  passed  a  Declaration  of  Colonial  rights;  and, 
on  October  26,  1774,  An  Address  to  the  King.  Of 
these  papers.  Lord  Chatham,  on  moving  an  address  to 
the  King,  January  20,  1775,  to  recall  the  troops  from 
Boston,  said:  "When  your  lordships  look  at  the  papers 
transmitted  us  from  America;  when  you  consider  their 
decency,  firmness,  and  wisdom,  you  cannot  but  respect 
their  cause,  and  wish  to  make  it  your  own.  For  my- 
self, I  must  declare  and  avow,  that  in  all  my  reading 
and  observation  —  and  it  has  been  my  favourite  study 
—  I  have  read  through  Thucydides,  and  have  studied 
and  admired  the  master-states  of  the  world  —  that  for 
solidity  of  reasoning,  force  of  sagacity,  and  wisdom  of 
conclusion,  under  such  a  complication  of  difficult  cir- 

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cumstances,  no  nation,  or  body  of  men,  can  stand  in 
preferance  to  the  General  Congress  at  Philadelphia." 

The  Address  is  printed  in  full  in  Force's  Archives: 
Ser.  IV.,  vol.  I.,  page  934.  Below  is  given  the  title  and 
the  opening  lines  of  the  Address,  which  is  omitted  by 
reason  of  its  length.  Appended  to  the  framed  text  are 
original  signatures  of  all  who  signed  it,  save  of  Henry 
Middleton,  the  President  of  Congress,  whose  name  is 
printed. 

In  Congress,  October  26,  1774.  "To  the 
King's  Most  Excellent  Majesty." 

Most  Gracious  Sovereign:  We,  your  Majesty's 
faithful  subjects  of  the  Colonies  of  New-Hampshire, 
Massachusetts  Bay,  Rhode-Island  and  Providence  Plan- 
tations, Connecticut,  New-York,  New-Jersey,  Pennsyl- 
vania, the  Counties  of  New-Castle,  Kent,  and  Sussex, 
on  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  and 
South  Carolina,  in  behalf  of  ourselves  and  the  inhabit- 
ants of  those  Colonies  who  have  deputed  us  to  represent 
them  in  General  Congress,  by  this  our  humble  Petition, 
beg  leave  to  lay  our  Grievances  before  the  Throne. 

^  ^  2{C  3)C  3JC 

We  therefore  most  earnestly  beseech  your  Majesty, 
that  your  Royal  authority  and  interposition  may  be  used 
for  our  relief,  and  that  a  gracious  Answer  may  be  given 
to  this  Petition. 

That  your  Majesty  may  enjoy  every  felicity  through 
a  long  and  glorious  Reign,  over  loyal  and  happy  sub- 
jects, and  that  your  descendants  may  inherit  your  pros- 
perity and  Dominions  till  time  shall  be  no  more,  is,  and 
always  will  be,  our  sincere  and  fervent  prayer. 

Henry  Middleton,  President. 

SIGNATURES  (read  from  right  to  left):  New  Hamp- 
shire: John  Sullivan;  Nathaniel  Folsom.  Massa- 
chusetts Bay:  Thomas  Gushing;  Samuel  Adams;  John 
Adams;  Robert  Treat  Paine.  Rhode  Island:  Stephen 
Hopkins;  Samuel  Ward.  Connecticut:  Eliphalet 
Dyer;  Roger  Sherman;  Silas  Deane.  New  York: 
Philip  Livingston;  John  Alsop;  Isaac  Low;  James 
Duane;  William  Floyd;  Simon  Boerum;  John  Jay; 
Henry    Wisner.      New    Jersey:    William    Livingston 

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(with  seal);  John  De  Hart;  Stephen  Crane;  Richard 
Smith.  Pennsylvania:  Edward  Biddle;  Joseph  Gallo- 
way; John  Dickinson;  John  Morton;  Thomas  Mifflin; 
George  Ross;  Charles  Humphreys.  Delaware:  Caesar 
Rodney;  Thomas  McKean;  George  Read.  Maryland: 
Mathew  Tilghman;  Thomas  Johnson;  William  Paca; 
Samuel  Chase.  Virginia:  Richard  Henry  Lee;  Patrick 
way;  John  Dickinson;  John  Morton;  Thomas  Mifflin; 
Henry;  George  Washington;  Edmund  Pendleton; 
Richard  Bland;  Benjamin  Harrison.  North  Caro- 
lina: William  Hooper;  Joseph  Hewes;  Richard  Cas- 
well. South  Carolina:  Thomas  Lynch;  Christopher 
Gadsden;  John  Rutledge;  Edward  Rutledge. 


DOCUMENT   B. 

The  Declaration  of  Independence  as  signed 
by  the  Continental  Congress  at  Philadelphia, 
August  2,  1776. 

When  Richard  Henry  Lee's  resolution,  "That  these 
United  Colonies  are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  free 
and  independent  states;  and  that  all  political  connection 
between  them  and  the  State  of  Great  Britain  is,  and 
ought  to  be  dissolved,"  was  agreed  to  by  the  Congress 
on  July  2,  1776,  the  battle  had  been  fought  and  won. 
This  was  the  day  of  which  John  Adams,  writing  to  his 
wife,  July  3,  said,  "Yesterday  the  greatest  question  was 
decided,  which  was  ever  debated  in  America,  and  a 
greater,  perhaps,  never  was  nor  will  be  decided  among 
men.  A  resolution  was  passed  without  one  dissenting 
colony,  'that  these  United  Colonies  are,  and  of  right 
ought  to  be,  free  and  independent  States,'  etc.  .  .  .  The 
second  day  of  July,  1776,  will  be  the  most  memorable 
epoch  in  the  history  of  America.  ...  It  ought  to  be 
commemorated  as  the  day  of  deliverance."  But  July  4, 
when  the  Declaration  drafted  by  Jefferson  was  made, 
is  regarded  as  the  more  memorable  day,  partly,  it  may 
have  been,  because  of  the  belief  long  prevalent  that  on 
that  day  the  Declaration  was  signed  by  the  members 
of  Congress.  But  it  was  otherwise;  for  on  July  4  it 
was   signed   only   by  John   Hancock,    President,   and 

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Charles  Thomson,  Secretary  of  Congress;  and  in  that 
form  ordered  to  be  printed  and  sent  to  the  several 
States,  and  to  be  proclaimed  at  the  head  of  the  army. 
On  July  19  Congress  resolved,  That  the  Declaration 
passed  on  the  Fourth  be  fairly  engrossed  on  parchment, 
with  the  title,  etc.;  and  that  the  same,  when  engrossed, 
be  signed  by  every  member  of  Congress.  The  Secret 
Journal  of  the  Congress  for  August  2  says,  The  Decla- 
ration of  Independence,  being  engrossed  and  compared 
at  the  table,  was  signed  by  the  members.  It  is  not  un- 
likely that  several  members  were  absent  on  that  day 
and  signed  shortly  after.  It  is  said  that  McKean  did 
not  sign  until  1781;  but  it  is  certain  that  he  was  in 
Philadelphia  on  October  13,  1776,  and  signed  a  letter 
as  one  of  a  Congressional  committee.  This  letter  is  in 
the  Chamberlain  Collection.  Thornton  of  New  Hamp- 
shire did  not  take  his  seat  until  November  4,  and  as  a 
matter  of  course  signed  after  that  date.  On  January  18, 
"^777^  it  was  Ordered,  that  an  authenticated  copy  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  with  the  names  of  the 
members  of  Congress  subscribing  to  the  same,  be  sent 
to  each  of  the  United  States,  and  they  be  desired  to 
have  the  same  put  upon  record.  The  Boston  Public 
Library  possesses  one  of  these  copies  which  seems  to 
have  strayed  from  the  archives  of  some  State.  The 
same  Library  also  possesses  a  somewhat  reduced  pho- 
tographic fac-simile  of  the  original  in  its  present  con- 
dition with  the  autographs  nearly  faded  out,  a  mishap 
said  to  have  been  caused  many  years  ago  by  taking  a 
copy  by  the  anastatic  process.  A  specimen  of  such  a 
copy  is  here  presented  with  the  fac-simile  signatures 
covered  by  original  autographs.  No  other  copy  so  en- 
riched by  original  signatures  is  known. 

In  Congress,  July  4,  1776.  The  Unanimous 

Declaration  of  the  thirteen  united  States  of 

America. 

When  in  the  Course  of  human  events,  it  becomes 
necessary  for  one  people  to  dissolve  the  political  bands 
which  have  connected  them  with  another,  and  to  assume 
among  the  Powers  of  the  earth,  the  separate  and  equal 
station  to  which  the  Laws  of  Nature  and  of  Nature's 
God  entitle  them,  a  decent  respect  to  the  opinions  of 

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mankind  requires  that  they  should  declare  the  causes 
which  impel  them  to  the  separation. 

;|c  *  ^  3f:  >!: 

We  therefore  the  representatives  of  the  United  States 
of  America  in  General  Congress  assembled,  appealing 
to  the  supreme  judge  of  the  world  for  the  rectitude  of 
our  intentions,  do  in  the  name,  and  by  the  authority  of 
the  good  people  of  these  Colonies,  solemnly  publish  and 
declare,  that  these  united  Colonies  are,  and  of  right 
ought  to  be,  free  and  independent  States;  that  they  are 
absolved  from  all  allegiance  to  the  British  crown,  and 
that  all  political  connection  between  them  and  the  state 
of  Great  Britain  is,  and  ought  to  be,  totally  dissolved; 
and  that  as  free  and  independent  States,  they  have  full 
power  to  levy  war,  conclude  peace,  contract  alliances, 
establish  commerce,  and  to  do  all  other  acts  and  things 
which  independent  States  may  of  right  do. 

And  for  the  support  of  this  declaration,  with  a  firm 
reliance  on  the  protection  of  divine  providence,  we 
mutually  pledge  to  each  other  our  lives,  our  fortunes, 
and  our  sacred  honor. 

SIGNATURES  OF  THE  SIGNERS  (in  the  order  of 
states,  from  right  to  left): 

John  Hancock. 

Josiah  Bartlett.  William  Whipple.  Samuel  Adams. 
John  Adams.  Robert  Treat  Paine.  Elbridge  Gerry. 
Stephen  Hopkins.  William  Ellery.  Roger  Sherman. 
Samuel  Huntington.  William  Williams.  Oliver  Wol- 
cott.     Matthew  Thornton. 

William  Floyd.  Philip  Livingston.  Francis  Lewis. 
Lewis  Morris.  Richard  Stockton.  John  Witherspoon. 
Francis  Hopkinson.     John  Hart.     Abraham  Clark. 

Robert  Morris.  Benjamin  Rush.  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin. John  Morton.  George  Clymer.  James  Smith. 
George  Taylor.    James  Wilson.     George  Ross. 

Caesar  Rodney.  George  Read.  Thomas  McKean. 
Samuel  Chase.  William  Paca.  Thomas  Stone.  Charles 
Carroll,  of  Carrollton, 

George  Wythe.  Richard  Henry  Lee.  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson. Benjamin  Harrison.  Thomas  Nelson,  Jr. 
Francis  Lightfoot  Lee.  Carter  Braxton.  William 
Hooper.    Joseph  Hewes.    John  Penn. 

Edward  Rutledge.    Thomas  Hayward,  Jr.    Thomas 
Lynch,  Jr.    Arthur  Middleton.    Button  Gwinnett.     Ly- 
man Hall.    George  Walton. 
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DOCUMENT   C. 

The  subject  of  some  sort  of  a  general  government 
for  the  Colonies  engaged  the  attention  of  Congress 
even  before  it  had  declared  them  independent  States. 
It  was  embraced  in  Richard  Henry  Lee's  resolutions  of 
June  7,  1776;  and  on  July  11  Congress  voted  to  choose 
a  committee  "to  prepare  and  digest  the  form  of  a  con- 
federation to  be  entered  into  between  these  colonies." 
On  July  12  this  committee  reported  articles  which  were 
drawn  up  by  John  Dickinson;  but  they  were  not  finally 
adopted  until  five  years  after.  The  limits  of  this  note 
do  not  permit  an  account  of  the  difficulties  of  sectional 
interests,  commerce,  political  power,  and  public  lands, 
and  of  prejudices,  which  delayed  the  establishment  of  a 
government  even  as  powerless  as  that  of  the  Confed- 
eration proved  to  be.  It  was  not  until  March,  1781, — 
five  years  after  it  was  contemplated,  —  that  the  Con- 
federation went  into  effect  by  the  assent  of  the  Mary- 
land delegates  when  authorized  by  the  people  of  that 
State.  As  a  system  of  government  nothing  could  have 
been  framed  more  weak  or  unsatisfactory.  It  finally 
became  so  inefficient  that  there  was  danger  lest  the 
States  should  separate  into  two  or  three  confederacies, 
or  even  set  up  as  independent  governments.  Happily, 
however,  six  years  after  the  adoption  of  the  Articles  of 
Confederation,  the  Convention  which  formed  the  pres- 
ent Constitution,  met  at  Philadelphia  and  gave  the  peo- 
ple a  government  which  has  since  continued  to  afford 
them  satisfaction.  Of  the  signatures  appended  to  this 
document,  those  of  Adams  of  Virginia,  Penn  and  Wil- 
liams of  North  Carolina,  Hutson  of  South  Carolina, 
and  Walton  of  Georgia,  are  fac-similes,  and  with  the 
exception  of  Hutson,  are  from  the  original  rolls  at 
Washington. 

Articles  of  Confederation  and  Perpetual 
Union  between  the  States. 

To  ALL  TO  WHOM  THESE  PRESENTS  SHALL  COME,  WE 
THE  UNDERSIGNED   DELEGATES   OF  THE  STATES  AFFIXED 

TO  OUR  NAMES,  SEND  GREETING.  —  Whercas  the  dele- 
gates of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  as- 
sembled did  on  the  15th  day  of  November  in  the  Year 

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of  our  Lord  1777,  and  in  the  Second  Year  of  the  Inde- 
pendence of  America  agree  to  certain  articles  of  Con- 
federation and  perpetual  Union  between  the  States  of 
New-Hampshire,  Massachusetts-bay,  Rhode-island  and 
Providence  Plantations,  Connecticut,  New- York,  New- 
Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia, 
North-CaroHna,  South-Carolina,  and  Georgia,  in  the 
words  followmg,  viz. :  —  "Articles  of  Confederation  and 
Perpetual  Union  between  the  States  of  New-Hampshire, 
Massachusetts-Bay,  Rhode-Island  and  Providence  Plan- 
tations, Connecticut,  New- York,  New-Jersey,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  North-Carolina, 
South-Carolina,  and  Georgia." 

Article  I.  —  The  Stile  of  this  confederacy  shall  be, 
"The  United  States  of  America." 

***** 

Article  XIII.  —  Every  state  shall  abide  by  the  de- 
terminations of  the  united  states  in  congress  assembled, 
on  all  questions  which  by  this  confederation  is  submitted 
to  them.  And  the  Articles  of  this  confederation  shall  be 
inviolably  observed  by  every  state,  and  the  union  shall 
be  perpetual;  nor  shall  any  alteration  at  any  time  here- 
after be  made  in  any  of  them;  unless  such  alteration  be 
agreed  to  in  a  congress  of  the  united  states,  and  be  after- 
wards confirmed  by  the  legislatures  of  every  state. 

And  whereas  it  hath  pleased  the  Great  Governor  of 
the  World  to  incline  the  hearts  of  the  legislatures  we 
respectively  represent  in  congress,  to  approve  of,  and 
to  authorize  us  to  ratify  the  said  articles  of  confedera- 
tion and  perpetual  union,  Know  Ye  that  we,  the  under- 
signed delegates,  by  virtue  of  the  power  and  authority 
to  us  given  for  that  purpose,  do  by  these  presents,  in 
the  name  and  in  behalf  of  our  respective  constituents, 
fully  and  entirely  ratify  and  confirm  each  and  every  of 
the  said  articles  of  confederation  and  perpetual  union, 
and  all  and  singular  the  matters  and  things  therein  con- 
tained: And  we  do  further  solemnly  plight  and  engage 
the  faith  of  our  respective  constituents,  that  they  shall 
abide  by  the  determinations  of  the  united  states  in  con- 
gress assembled,  on  all  questions,  which  by  the  said 
confederation  are  submitted  to  tbem.  And  that  the  arti- 
cles thereof  shall  be  inviolably  observed  by  the  states 
we  respectively  represent,  and  that  the  union  shall  be 
perpetual.    In  witness  whereof  we  have  hereunto  set  our 

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hands  in  Congress.  Done  at  Philadelphia  in  the  state 
of  Pennsylvania  the  9th  day  of  July  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord,  1778,  and  in  the  3d  year  of  the  Independence  of 
America. 

SIGNATURES: 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  New 
Hampshire:   Josiah  Bartlett;  John  Wentworth. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay:  John  Hancock;  Samuel  Adams;  El- 
bridge  Gerry;  Francis  Dana;  James  Lovell;  Samuel 
Henry  Marchant;  John  Collins. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Rhode 
Island  and  Providence  Plantation:  William  EUery; 
Holten. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut: Roger  Sherman;  Samuel  Huntington;  Oli- 
ver Wolcott;  Titus  Hosmer;  Andrew  Adams. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  New 
York:  James  Duane;  Francis  Lewis;  William  Duer; 
Gouverneur  Morris. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey:   James  Witherspoon;  Nathaniel  Scudder. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania: Robert  Morris;  Daniel  Roberdeau;  Jonathan 
B.  Smith;  William  Clingan;  Joseph  Reed. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Dela- 
ware: Thomas  McKean;  John  Dickinson;  Nicholas 
Van  Dyke. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Mary- 
land: John  Hanson;  Daniel  Carroll. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia: Richard  Henry  Lee;  John  Banister;  Thomas 
Adams;  John  Harvie;  Francis  Lightfoot  Lee. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  North 
Carolina:  John  Penn;  Cornelius  Harnett;  John  Wil- 
liams. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  South 
Carolina:  Henry  Laurens;  William  Henry  Drayton; 
John  Mathews;  Richard  Hutson;  Thomas  Hey  ward,  Jr. 

On  the  part  and  behalf  of  the  State  of  Geor- 
gia: John  Walton;  Edward  Telfair;  Edward  Lang- 
worthy. 


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DOCUMENT   D. 

The  Convention  which  framed  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States  met  at  Philadelphia  on  May  14,  1787, 
and  very  early  developed  diversities  of  opinions  among 
its  members  so  irreconcilable  that  more  than  once  its 
dissolution  seemed  to  be  inevitable;  and  when  its  work 
was  done,  the  Constitution  was  signed  by  only  thirty- 
nine  of  the  fifty-five  members  who  at  any  time  attended 
the  Convention. 

Besides  the  reasons  for  this  diversity  of  opinions  and 
sectional  interests  mentioned  in  the  note  to  the  Articles 
of  Confederation,  were  the  facts  that  the  call  of  the 
Convention  limited  its  power  to  a  revision  of  those 
Articles  and  did  not  extend  to  the  formation  of  a  new- 
constitution.  Moreover,  the  Confederacy,  by  the  terms 
of  its  formation  purported  to  be  a  "Perpetual  Union." 
A  similar  divergence  of  opinions  appeared  among  the 
States  on  the  question  of  its  adoption.  This  was  for  a 
long  time  in  doubt,  and  was  finally  carried  in  several  of 
the  largest  states  by  slender  majorities.  North  Carolina 
and  Rhode  Island  at  first  refused  adoption,  but  finally 
came  into  the  Union,  the  former,  on  November  21,  1789, 
and  the  latter.  May  29,  1790.  It  is  doubtful  whether  a 
majority  of  the  people  of  all  the  States  was  in  favor 
of  ratifying  the  work  of  the  Convention;  and  it  is  cer- 
tain that  some  of  the  earliest  and  ablest  leaders  of  the 
Revolution,  such  as  Samuel  Adams,  George  Clinton, 
and  Patrick  Henry,  strenuously  opposed  its  adoption. 
But  it  was  the  best  result  attainable  at  the  time  by  the 
ablest  and  most  patriotic  men  who  had  ever  assembled 
in  America. 

Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

We  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order  to  form 
a  more  perfect  Union,  establish  Justice,  insure  domestic 
Tranquillity,  provide  for  the  common  Defence,  promote 
the  general  Welfare,  and  secure  the  Blessings  of  Liberty 
to  ourselves  and  our  Posterity,  do  ordain  and  establish 
this  Constitution  for  the  United  States  of  America. 

ARTICLE  I. 
Section  i.    All  legislative  Powers  herein  granted, 

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shall  be  vested  in  a  Congress  of  the  United  States,  which 
shall  consist  of  a  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives. 

***** 

The  Ratification  of  the  Conventions  of  nine  States 
shall  be  sufficient  for  the  Establishment  of  this  Consti- 
tution between  the  States  so  ratifying  the  Same. 

Done  in  Convention  by  the  Unanimous  Consent  o! 
the  States  present  the  Seventeenth  day  of  September  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
Eighty-seven  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United 
States  of  America  the  Twelfth.  In  Witness  whereof 
We  have  hereunto  subscribed  our  names. 

Geo.  Washington,  Pres.  and  deputy  from  Virginia. 
SIGNATURES  (of  the  Members  of  the  Convention). 

New  Hampshire:  *John  Langdon;  *Nicholas  Gil- 
man.  Massachusetts:  Elbridge  Gerry;  *Nathaniel 
Gorham;  Caleb  Strong;  *Rufus  King.  Connecticut: 
Oliver  Ellsworth;  *William  Sam.  Johnson;  *Roger 
Sherman.  New  York:  *Alexander  Hamilton:  John 
Lansing,  Jr.;  Robert  Yates.  New  Jersey:  William  C. 
Houston;  *William  Paterson;  *David  Brearley;  *Jona- 
than  Dayton;  *  William  Livingston.  Pennsylvania: 
*Benjamin  Franklin;  *Jared  Ingersoll;  *Thomas  Mif- 
flin; ^Thomas  Fitzsimmons;  *George  Clymer;  *Robert 
Morris;  *Gouverneur  Morris;  *James  Wilson.  Dela- 
ware: *Richard  Bassett;  *Jacob  Broom;  *George  Read; 
♦John  Dickinson;  *Gunning  Bedford,  Jr.  Maryland: 
*Daniel  Carroll;  Luther  Martin;  John  Francis  Mercer; 
*James  McHenry;  *Daniel  of  St.  Thomas  Jenifer. 
Virginia:  George  Washington;  Edmund  Randolph; 
George  Mason;  George  Wythe;  James  McClurg;  *John 
Blair;  *James  Madison.  North  Carolina:  *William 
Blount;  Alexander  Martin;  *Richard  Dobbs  Spaight; 
♦Hugh  Williamson;  WilHam  R.  Davie.  South  Caro- 
lina: *Charles  Pinckney;  *Pierce  Butler;  *Charles 
Cotesworth  Pinckney;  *John  Rutledge.  Georgia: 
♦William  Few;  William  Pierce;  *  Abraham  Baldwin; 
William  Houston. 

William  Jackson,  Secretary. 


*  The   names   marked   with   an  asterisk   are   those   of   actual 
signers  of  the  Constitution. 

2Q 


TABLET  I. 

Sovereigns  of  Great   Britain.     James   I.   to 
George  IV.     1 603-1 830. 

OBVERSE.  Autographs:  James  I.,  under  portraits 
of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.;  Charles  I.,  Oliver  Cromwell, 
with  portraits;  Charles  II.,  James  IL,  with  portraits; 
William  III.,  Anne  (two  autographs),  with  portraits; 
George  I.,  George  II.,  with  portraits;  George  III., 
George  IV.,  with  portraits. 

REVERSE.  Seals  of  James  I.  and  of  the  four 
Georges.  Portraits  (right  to  left):  Shakespeare;  Buck- 
ingham; Raleigh;  Bacon;  Hampden;  Edward  VI.; 
Mary;  Strafford;  William  IV.;  Victoria;  Wren;  Wal- 
pole;  Newton;  Marlborough;  Chatham;  Charles  Ed- 
ward. 

TABLET  IL 

Sovereigns  of  France.     Henry  of  Navarre  to 
Louis  Philippe.     1 589-1848. 

OBVERSE.  Autographs:  Henry  of  Navarre,  Louis 
XIII.,  with  portraits;  Louis  XIV.,  Louis  XV.,  with 
portraits;  Louis  XVI.,  Buonaparte,  with  portraits; 
Louis  XVIII.,  Charles  X.,  with  portraits;  Louis 
Philippe,  with  portrait. 

REVERSE.  Portrait:  Louis  XIII.  Medallions  of 
Josephine  and  Napoleon  (emperor).  Seals  of  Buona- 
parte, first  consul,  of  Louis  XIII.  and  of  Louis  XIV. 

TABLET  III. 
King  and  Parliament.     1775. 

Note.  The  names  below  embrace  only  the  mate- 
rial in  cut  signatures  at  hand  at  the  time  the  tablet 
was  prepared.  Interesting  letters,  with  signatures  of 
Burke,  and  of  the  other  distinguished  members  of  both 
houses  of  Parliament  at  the  period  treated,  are  to  be 
found  in  the  general  collection. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  John  Wilkes;  Lord  Dart- 
mouth; Edmund  Burke;  Lord  Camden;  Colonel  Barre; 

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Chatham  [monument,  Westminster  Abbey] ;  Edward 
Gibbon.  Autographs:  George  III.;  Duke  of  Richmond; 
William  Pitt,  Lord  Chatham;  Thomas  Townshend; 
Charles  Townshend;  Lord  Camden;  Lord  Dartmouth; 
Thomas  Pownall  [royal  governor  1757-60] ;  John 
Wilkes;  Lord  Thurlow;  Lord  Loughborough, 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Relative  to  the  siege  of 
Quebec,  with  old  view  of  Point  Levi;  Proceedings  in 
Parliament;  Biographical  notes;  Reference  to  a  "Tragic 
Comedy  of  Five  Acts,"  based  on  the  action  of  England 
against  America,  published  in  Philadelphia,  in  1776. 

TABLET  IV. 
British  Premiers.     1759  to  1800. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Lord  North;  Augustus 
Henry,  Duke  of  Grafton;  Charles,  Marquis  of  Rock- 
ingham; William  Pitt;  George  Grenville;  Fox;  Pitt 
[1759-1806];  Burke;  Sheridan.  Autographs:  Holies 
Newcastle,  Duke  of  Newcastle;  William  Pitt,  Lord 
Chatham;  Earl  Bute;  George  Grenville;  Lord  Rock- 
ingham; Duke  of  Grafton;  Lord  North;  Lord  Shel- 
burne;  Duke  of  Portland;  William  Pitt,  Lord  Chatham. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  Death  of  General  Wolfe;  Me- 
dallion, Adam  Smith;  Medallion  struck  in  honor  of 
Lord  North;  Remains  of  Pitt's  statue.  Letter  press: 
Extracts  relative  to  Parliamentary  proceedings  in  1774, 
on  American  affairs;  Account  of  the  reception  in  New 
York  of  the  news  of  the  repeal  of  the  Stamp  act;  Bio- 
graphical notes;  Caricatures  of  Pitt. 

TABLET  V. 

British  Generals  in  Chief.     1 755-1 783. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  General  Wolfe;  Sir  Henry 
Clinton;  Sir  Guy  Carleton;  General  Wolfe  (as  shown 
on  Putnam's  tavern  sign);  Lord  Amherst.  Prints: 
Wolfe  and  Montcalm's  monument,  with  text  of  in- 
scription; Plan  of  Fort  Edward.  Autographs:  Edward 
Braddock;  William  Shirley;  Earl  Loudoun;  James 
Wolfe;  Lord  Amherst;  James  Abercromby;  Sir 
Thomas  Gage;  Sir  William  Howe;  Sir  Henry  Clinton; 
Sir  Guy  Carleton. 

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REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Extracts  relative  to  the 
campaigns  in  Canada,  1757-59;  The  assault  on  Quebec, 
with  print  of  Wolfe's  monument,  and  of  the  citadel; 
Biographical  notes. 


TABLET  VI. 
In  the  French  War.     1 756-1 759. 

OBVERSE,  Portrait:  Sir  William  Johnson,  with 
picture  of  Johnson's  Hall,  and  biographical  note  [at 
foot  of  frame]  with  picture  of  Fort  Johnson.  Prints: 
The  ruins  of  the  citadel  of  Fort  George;  Rogers's 
Rock;  Oswego  in  1755;  Fort  Miller  fording-place; 
Morris's  house;  Major  Israel  Putnam  in  British  uni- 
form; Bloody  Run.  Autographs:  Sir  William  John- 
son; Sir  Guy  Johnson;  General  John  Bradstreet;  John 
Stark;  Robert  Rodgers;  Seth  Pomeroy;  Colonel  Eph- 
raim  Williams. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Relative  to  Governor 
Shirley's  march  to  Oswego,  and  works  there,  with 
picture  of  the  forts;  Biographical  notes. 

TABLET  VII. 
Governors  of  New  Hampshire.     1680- 1829. 

OBVERSE,  Prints:  Death  of  Major  Waldron, 
1689;  Mason's  title  disputed.  Seal,  1692.  Autographs: 
John  Cutt;  Richard  Waldron;  Edward  Cranfield;  Wal- 
ter Barefoote  (two  autographs,  one  with  signature  also 
of  Robert  Mason,  a  prominent  man  of  affairs) ;  Joseph 
Dudley;  John  Usher;  William  Partridge;  Samuel  Al- 
len; Benning  Wentworth;  John  Wentworth;  Mesheck 
Weare;  John  Langdon;  John  Sullivan;  Josiah  Bartlett; 
John  Taylor  Gilman;  Jeremiah  Smith;  William 
Plumer;  Samuel  Bell;  Levi  Woodbury;  David  Law- 
rence  Morril;    Benjamin   Pierce;   John   Bell. 

REVERSE.  Commission  dated  1778,  bearing  auto- 
graph of  Governor  Mesheck  Weare,  and  E.  Thomp- 
son, secretary,  with  State  seal. 

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TABLET  VIII. 
Governors  of  Massachusetts.     1 629-1 774. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Endecott;  Winthrop.  Print: 
Old  Province  House,  Boston.  Autographs:  John  Win- 
throp; Thomas  Dudley;  John  Endecott;  John  Haynes 
[fac-simile] ;  Sir  Henry  Vane;  Richard  Bellingham; 
Richard   Russell;^  John   Leverett;   Simon   Bradstreet; 

1  Not    a    governor. 

Edmund  Andros;  Sir  William  Phips;  William  Stough- 
ton  [acting  governor] ;  Bellomont;  Joseph  Dudley;  Wil- 
liam Tailer  [acting  governor] ;  Samuel  Shute;  William 
Dummer  [acting  governor];  William  Burnet;  Jonathan 
Belcher;  William  Shirley;  Spencer  Phips  [acting  gov- 
ernor]; Thomas  Pownall;  Thomas  Hutchinson;  Sir 
Francis  Bernard;  Thomas  Gage. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:    Simon  Bradstreet. 

TABLET    IX. 
Governors  of  Massachusetts.     1 780-1865. 

OBVERSE.  Print:  Old  State  House,  Boston. 
Autographs:  John  Hancock,  James  Bowdoin,  with 
portraits;  Samuel  Adams,  Increase  Sumner,  with  por- 
traits; Caleb  Strong;  James  Sullivan;  Christopher 
Gore;  Elbridge  Gerry;  John  Brooks;  William  Eustis; 
Levi  Lincoln;  John  Davis;  Edward  Everett;  Marcus 
Morton;  George  N.  Briggs;  George  S.  Boutwell;  John 
H.  Clifford;  Emory  Washburn;  Henry  J.  Gardner; 
Nathaniel  P.  Banks;  John  A.  Andrew. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Resolves  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts House  of  Representatives,  May  5,  1777,  look- 
ing toward  the  formation  of  the  State  Constitution. 
(Broadside.) 

TABLET  X. 
Presidents  of  Harvard  College.     1 640-1 868. 

OBVERSE.  Print:  Old  view  of  Harvard  College. 
Autographs:  Henry  Dunster;  Charles  Chauncy;  Leon- 
ard Hoar;  Urian  Oakes  [fac-simile] ;  John  Rogers  [fac- 
simile];  Increase  Mather;  Samuel  Willard;  John  Lev- 

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erett;  Benjamin  Wadsworth;  Edward  Holyoke;  Samuel 
Locke;  Samuel  Langdon;  Joseph  Willard;  Samuel  Web- 
ber; John  T.  Kirkland;  Josiah  Quincy;  Edward  Everett; 
Jared  Sparks;  James  Walker;  Cornelius  C.  Felton; 
Thomas  Hill. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:    Edward  Everett,  with  seal. 

TABLET  XI. 

Some  of  the  [Massachusetts]  Clergy.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Print:  Old  picture  of  Eliot  and  the  Indians.  Ex- 
tract from  the  Diary  of  John  Eliot  (MS.),  1677. 
Autographs:  John  Cotton;  John  Wilson;  Cotton 
Mather;  Samuel  Willard;  Samuel  Mather;  Benjamin 
Wadsworth;  James  Allen;  Thomas  Prince;  Benjamin 
Colman;  Peter  Thacher;  William  Cooper;  Thomas 
Cheever;  Ebenezer  Pemberton;  Christopher  Bridge; 
Andrew  Le  Mercier  [pastor  of  the  French  Church  in 
Boston];  P.  Daille;  Thomas  Foxcroft;  John  Webb; 
Samuel  Myles;  Elisha  Callender. 

Clerical  and  Literary.     [On  Reverse.] 

Autographs:  Thomas  Bridges;  Joshua  Gee;  Charles 
Chauncy;  Roger  Price;  Joseph  Sewall;  Robert  Sande- 
man;  Nathaniel  Emmons;  Timothy  Cutler;  Mather 
Byles;  Ezra  Stiles;  Eleazer  Wheelock,  Presidt.  of  Dart- 
mouth College;  John  Wheelock;  George  R.  Minot; 
Royall  Tyler;  Isaiah  Thomas;  Mercy  Warren;  Joseph 
Priestley;  Matthew  Carey;  Nathaniel  Bowditch;  Wash- 
ington Irving;  William  E.  Channing;  William  Cullen 
Bryant;  George  Bancroft;  John  Pierpont;  William  H. 
Prescott;  Henry  Ware,  Jr.;  James  Savage;  Richard  H. 
Dana,  Jr.;  Francis  Lieber. 

TABLET  XIL 

Speakers  of  the  [Massachusetts]  House  of 
Deputies.     [On  Obverse.] 

Note.  Of  the  autographs  below,  those  from  Ha- 
thorne  to  Saffin  are  of  speakers  of  the  House  under 

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the  first  charter;  those  from  Oakes  to  Townshend,  dur- 
ing the  usurpation  under  Dudley  and  Andros,  May, 
i686-April,  1689,  and  during  the  Provincial  Government 
assembled  June,  1689;  those  from  Bond  to  Clark,  under 
the  second  charter. 

Autographs :  William  Hathorne;  Robert  Keayne  [fac- 
simile];  Robert  Bridges;  Joseph  Hills;  Richard  Russell; 
Daniel  Denison;  Daniel  Gookin;  Humphrey  Atherton; 
Edward  Johnson;  Thomas  Savage;  Thomas  Clarke 
[with  a  seal] ;  John  Leverett;  Richard  Waldron;  Joshua 
Hobart  [fac-simile] ;  Peter  Bulkeley;  John  Richards; 
Daniel  Fisher;  Elisha  Cooke;  John  Wayte;  Isaac  Ad- 
dington;  John  Saffin;  Thomas  Oakes;  John  Bowles  [fac- 
simile] ;  Penn  Townsend;  William  Bond  [also  a  speaker 
under  the  provincial  government,  chosen  May  4,  1692] ; 
Nathaniel  Byfield;  Nehemiah  Jewett;  James  Converse; 
John  Burrill;  John  Leverett;  Thomas  Oliver;  John 
Clark. 

Speakers  of  the  [IMassachusetts]  House  of 
Representatives.     [On  Reverse.] 

Portraits:  James  Otis;  John  Hancock.  Autographs : 
Timothy  Lindall;  William  Dudley;  John  Quincy;  John 
Hobson;  Paul  Dudley  [elected,  but  negatived  by  the 
governor,  1739];  Ebenezer  Pomeroy;  Samuel  Watts; 
William  Faierfeild;  Thomas  Gushing;  Thomas  Hutch- 
inson; Joseph  D wight;  Thomas  Hubbard;  Samuel 
White;  James  Otis;  Timothy  Ruggles;  Thomas  Clapp 
[speaker  pro  tem.,  chosen  June,  1764] ;  James  Otis  [jr.] ; 
John  Hancock;  James  Warren;  Thomas  Gushing;  Sam- 
uel Freeman;  William  Cooper;  Timothy  Danielson; 
Tristram  Dal  ton;  Robert  Treat  Paine;  John  Pitts;  John 
Pickering. 

TABLET  XIII. 

Some  of  the  [IVLassachusetts]  Court  of  Assist- 
ants.    [On  (Dbverse.] 

Portraits:  Endecott;  Winthrop.  Autographs:  John 
Endecott  [served  1630-34.  1636-40.  1645-48] ;  Simon 
Bradstreet  [1630-78];  Richard  Bellingham  [1636-39. 
1642-52];    Samuel    Symonds    [1643-72];    Francis   Wil- 

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loughby  [1650-51.  1664];  Thomas  Wiggin  [1650-64]; 
Daniel  Gookin  [1652-75.  1677-86]]  Daniel  Denison 
[1653-75-  1677-82];  Simon  Willard  [1654-75];  Hum- 
phrey Atherton  [1654-61];  Thomas  Danforth  [1659-78]; 
William  Hathorne  [1662-79];  John  Leverett  [1665-70]: 
John  Pynchon  [1665-86] ;  Edward  Tyng  [1668-80] ;  Wil- 
liam Stoughton  [1671-86];  Thomas  Clarke  [1673-77]; 
Joseph  Dudley  [1676-83];  Nathaniel  Saltonstall  [1679- 
86];  Humphrey  Davie  [1679-86];  James  Russell  [1680- 
86];  Samuel  Nowell  [1680-86];  John  Hull  [1680-83]; 
Bartholomew  Gedney  [1680-83] ;  Thomas  Savage  [1680- 
81];  William  Browne  [1680-83];  Richard  Saltonstall 
[1681-82];  Samuel  Appleton  [1681-86];  Robert  Pike 
[1682-86];  John  Woodbridge  [1683-84];  William  John- 
son [1684-86] ;  John  Hathorne  [1684-86] ;  Elisha  Hutch- 
inson [1684-86];  John  Smith  [1686];  John  Phillips; 
Oliver  Purchis  [1685,  elected  but  declined];  Samuel 
Cobbett.' 

Inter-charter  Judiciary.     [On  Reverse.] 

Note.  The  inter-charter  period:  from  the  over- 
throw of  the  first  charter  in  1684,  through  the  Andros 
government,  1686-89,  to  the  grant  of  the  new  charter  of 
1691. 

Portrait:  Stoughton.  Autographs:  William  Stough- 
ton; John  Pynchon;  Wait  [Wait  Still]  Winthrop;  Ed- 
ward Randolph;  Richard  Wharton;  John  Usher;  John 
Richards;  Simon  Lynde;  Joseph  Dudley;  Peter  Bulke- 
ley;  Samuel  Shrimpton;  John  Palmer  [fac-simile] ;  John 
West;  Robert  Mason;  Bartholomew  Gedney;  John 
Hinckes;  Francis  Nicholson;  John  Walley;  Charles 
Lidget;  Nathaniel  Byfield;  Benjamin  BuUivant,  James 
Graham,  George  ffarwell,  attorney  generals;  James 
Sherlock,  sheriff. 

TABLET  XIV. 

Superior  Court   of  Judicature.      1692-1775. 

[On  Obverse.] 

Portraits:  Oliver;  Lynde;  Stoughton;  Sewall. 
Print:     Old    Town    and    Court    House     [Old    State 

*  Not  an  assistant. 

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House].  Autographs:  William  Stoughton;  Thomas 
Danforth;  Wait  [Wait  Still]  Winthrop;  John  Richards; 
Samuel  Sewall;  Elisha  Cooke;  John  Walley;  Isaac  Ad- 
dington;  John  Saffin;  John  Hathorne;  John  Leverett; 
Jonathan  Corwin;  Benjamin  Lynde;  Nathaniel  Thomas; 
Addington  Davenport;  Paul  Dudley;  Edmund  Quinsey; 
John  Gushing;  Jonathan  Remington;  Richard  Salton- 
stall;  Stephen  Sewall;  Thomas  Greaves;  Nathaniel 
Hubbard;  Benjamin  Lynde;  John  Gushing;  Chambers 
Russell;  Thomas  Hutchinson;  Peter  Oliver;  Edmund 
Trowbridge;  Foster  Hutchinson;  Nathaniel  Ropes; 
William  Gushing;  Jedediah  Foster;^  William  Browne. 

Supreme  Judicial  Court.  1 775-1860.  [On 
Reverse.] 

Portraits:  John  Adams;  Theophilus  Parsons;  Lem- 
uel Shaw.  Autographs:  John  Adams;  William  Gush- 
ing; Nathaniel  Peaslee  Sargeant;  William  Read;  Robert 
Treat  Paine;  James  Warren;  Jedediah  Foster;  David 
Sewall;  James  Sullivan;  Francis  Dana;  Robert  Treat 
Paine;  Increase  Sumner;  Thomas  Dawes;  Nathan  Gush- 
ing; Theophilus  Bradbury;  Samuel  Sewall;  Simeon 
Strong;  George  Thacher;  Theodore  Sedgwick;  The- 
ophilus Parsons;  Isaac  Parker;  Gharles  Jackson;  Daniel 
Dewey;  Samuel  Putnam;  Samuel  S.  Wilde;  Levi  Lin- 
coln; Marcus  Morton;  Lemuel  Shaw;  Gharles  A. 
Dewey;  Samuel  Hubbard;  Gharles  E.  Forbes;  Theron 
Metcalf;  Richard  Fletcher;  George  Tyler  Bigelow; 
Galeb  Gushing;  Benjamin  F.  Thomas;  PHny  Merrick; 
E.  Rockwood  Hoar. 

TABLET  XV. 

Court  which  tried  the  Witches.     1692.     [On 

Obverse.] 

Note.  Governor  Sir  William  Phips  issued  a  Com- 
mission to  certain  persons,  constituting  them  a  Court 
of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  for  the  purpose  of  trying  per- 
sons charged  with  Witchcraft.  The  court  opened  in 
Salem  the  first  week  in  June,  1692. 

1  Not  a  judge  of  the  court. 

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Portrait:  Stoughton.  Autographs:  William  Stough- 
ton;  Nathaniel  Saltonstall;  Jonathan  Corwin;  John 
Richards;  Bartholomew  Gedney;  Wait  [Wait  Still] 
Winthrop;  Samuel  Sewall;  Peter  Sergeant;  Thomas 
Newton. 

Judges  and  Judge-Advocates  in  Admiralty. 
1 700-1 775.     [On  Reverse.] 

Portrait:  James  Otis,  Jr.  Autographs:  Wait  [Wait 
Still]  Winthrop;  John  Phillips;'  William  Atwood; 
Thomas  Newton;  Roger  Mompesson;  Nathaniel  By- 
field;  James  Menzeis;  Robert  Auchmuty;  Nathaniel 
Hubbard;  Chambers  Russell;  George  Cradock;  Wil- 
liam Read;  Robert  Auchmuty;  Benjamin  Lynde;  John 
Valentine;  William  Shirley;  William  Bollan;  James 
Otis;  Robert  Auchmuty;  John  Sewall;  Samuel  Fitch. 

TABLET  XVI. 

Attorney  Generals.     1692-1863.      [On  Ob- 
verse.] 

Portraits:  Sullivan;  Choate.  Autographs:  Anthony 
Checkley;  Paul  Dudley;  Thomas  Newton;  John  Over- 
ing;  Addington  Davenport,  jr.  [chosen  attorney  gen- 
eral in  1720  and  again  in  1723,  but  it  is  not  certain  that 
he  acted];  John  Read;  William  Brattle;  Jeremiah  Grid- 
ley;  James  Otis;  W.  Sever^;  Edmund  Trowbridge; 
Jonathan  Sewall;  Samuel  Quincy  [appointed  solicitor 
general  to  succeed  Sewall];  Robert  Treat  Paine;  James 
Sullivan;  Barnabas  Bidwell;  Perez  Morton;  J.  T.  Aus- 
tin; John  H.  Clifford;  Rufus  Choate:  Stephen  H.  Phil- 
lips; Dwight  Foster;  Chester  I.  Reed. 

Some  Massachusetts  Attorneys.     1 692-1 850. 
[On  Reverse.] 

Note.  The  autographs  below  are  of  persons  classi- 
fied as  attorneys  by  authority  which  seemed  to  be  suf- 
ficient at  the  time  of  the  preparation  of  this  tablet. 

*  Not  a  judge. 

2  Not  an  attorney  general. 

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Autographs:  Giles  Masters;  J.  Hearne;  Oakes  An- 
gler; Nathaniel  Newdigate;  Isaac  Little;  Simon  Davis; 
Fr.  Lawrence;  Nathaniel  Blagrove;  E.  Bisbe;  Pelham 
Winslow;  Joseph  Marion;  Sampson  S.  Blowers;  Ben- 
jamin Kent;  John  Sprague;  Edward  Pope;  James 
Hovey;  Daniel  Farnham;  Joseph  Dudley;  Robert  Rob- 
inson; Richard  Dana;  Daniel  Leonard;  B.  Gridley; 
Andrew  Cazneau;  William  Pynchon;  A.  Willard;  Seth 
Padelford;  Samuel  Swift;  Jona.  Mason;  Isaac  Mans- 
field; Shearja.  Bourne;  Moses  Bliss;  William  Langdon; 
Benjamin  Lincoln;  R.  G.  Amory;  Dudley  A.  Tyng; 
Christopher  Gore;  John  Lowell;  Harrison  G.  Otis; 
Samuel  Dexter;  William  Tudor;  Caleb  Strong;  George 
R.  Minot;  Timothy  Bigelow;  Thomas  O.  Selfridge; 
John  Davis;  William  Prescott;  Samuel  Hoar,  Jr.;  Lev- 
erett  Saltonstall;  Benjamin  Rand;  Joseph  Bell;  Charles 
G.  Loring;  Franklin  Dexter;  Robert  Rantoul,  Jr.; 
Charles  Sumner;  Charles  Pelham  Curtis. 

TABLET  XVII. 

Secretaries  of  State  in  Massachusetts.    1630- 

1846.     [On  Obverse.] 

Portraits:  Samuel  Adams;  General  Benjamin  Lin- 
coln. Autographs:  Simon  Bradstreet;  Increase  No  well; 
Robert  Bridges  [with  John  Endecott's  signature] ;  Ed- 
ward Rawson;  Edward  Randolph;  John  West  [deputy 
secretary] ;  Isaac  Addington;  Joseph  Marion  [pro  tem.] ; 
Joseph  Hiller;  Samuel  Woodward  [fac-simile] ;  Josiah 
Willard;  Simon  Frost  [pro  tem.];  Andrew  Oliver 
Thomas  Clarke  [pro  tem.] ;  Thomas  Flucker;  John  Cot- 
ton [pro  tem.] ;  Benjamin  Lincoln;  Joseph  Palmer  [pro 
tem.];  Ichabod  Goodwin;  Samuel  Freeman;  Isaac 
Stone,  Jr.;  John  Pigeon;  James  Warren  [pro  tem.]; 
William  Cooper;  Perez  Morton  [pro  tem.];  Samuel 
Adams  [qualified  Aug.,  1775,  and  designated  Mr.  Mor- 
ton his  deputy] ;  John  Lowell  [pro  tem.] ;  John  Avery. 

]\lassachusetts  in  the  Congress  of  1765.     [At 
New  York.]     [On  Reverse.] 

Note.  The  Congress  of  1765,  otherwise  the  famous 
Stamp  Act  Congress.     This  body  adopted  a  Declara- 

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tion  of  Rights  and  Grievances  of  the  Colonies;  an  ad- 
dress to  the  king;  a  memorial  to  the  House  of  Lords, 
and  a  petition  to  the  House  of  Commons.  "For  a  clear, 
accurate,  and  calm  statement,"  says  Judge  Chamber- 
lain in  the  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America, 
"these  papers  were  never  surpassed;  nor,  until  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  was  any 
advance  made  from  the  ground  taken  in  them."  Among 
other  men  composing  the  Congress,  who  became  cele- 
brated during  the  Revolution,  were  Johnson  and  Dyer 
of  Connecticut,  the  Livingstons  of  New  York,  McKean 
and  Rodney  of  Delaware,  Tilghman  of  Maryland,  Dick- 
inson of  Pennsylvania,  Rutledge,  Gadsden  and  Lynch 
of  South  Carolina.  Timothy  Ruggles,  better  known 
as  Brigadier  Ruggles,  although  the  president  of  the 
Congress,  did  not  concur  in  its  action,  and  finally  be- 
came a  pronounced  Loyalist.  The  Congresses  of  1774 
and  177s,  and  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1787, 
at  Philadelphia,  are  seen  on  the  four  great  Documents 
above  the  Tablets. 

Autographs:  S.  Welles;  John  Chandler;  Thomas 
Hutchinson;  Oliver  Partridge;  John  Worthington; 
James  Otis;  Timothy  Ruggles. 

TABLET  XVIII. 
Miscellaneous. 

OBVERSE.  Autographs:  Nathaniel  Morton  [histo- 
rian] ;  George  Cartwright  [of  the  Commission  in  1665] ; 
Robert  Carr  [of  the  Commission  in  1665] ;  Governor 
Robert  Nicolls  [Nichols]  [Commission,  1665];  Samuel 
Mavericke  [Commission,  1665];  John  West  [Deputy 
Secretary  under  Andros] ;  Edward  Randolph  [Secretary 
under  Andros] ;  Major-General  Daniel  Gookin;  Samuel 
Green  [printer];  Edward  Mitchelson;  Thomas  Savage; 
Edv/ard  Rawson  [Secretary  of  the  Mass.  Col.,  1650,  to 
the  abrogation  of  the  first  charter] ;  Thomas  Danforth 
[Deputy  Governor  of  Mass.,  1679-86] ;  Samuel  Symonds 
[Deputy  Governor,  1673-78] ;  John  Carver  [perhaps  of 
Duxbury,  but  not  the  Governor  of  Plymouth  Col.] ; 
John  Worthington;  Samuel  Welles  [Convention  of 
1754];  Adam  Winthrop;  Thomas  Hinckley  [Governor, 
Plymouth   Col.,   1681-92];  Winthrop   Hilton   [of   New 

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Hampshire];  Dr.  Zabdiel  Boylston;  Josiah  Franklin 
[chandler,  father  of  Benjamin  Franklin] ;  Jeremy  Dum- 
mer;  Thomas  Hancock;  Thomas  Hubbard;  Ezekiel 
Hersey;  General  John  Winslow;  Thomas  L.  Winthrop 
[Lieut.  Governor  Mass.,  1826-32];  Joseph  Story;  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Hutchinson;  John  Chandler  [Conven- 
tion of  1754]- 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Relative  to  Puritan  set- 
tlements, with  ancient  map  of  Massachusetts  Bay;  Fac- 
oine  tree  shilling,  and  of  the  first  American  paper 
simile  of  hand-writing  of  Pilgrims;  Fac-simile  of  the 
money. 

TABLET  XIX. 

In  tlie  Continental  Congress.     1 774-1 789. 

OBVERSE.  Picture  of  Continental  Congress.  Por- 
traits: John  Adams;  Samuel  Adams.  Autographs :  John 
Adams;  Samuel  Adams;  Thomas  Gushing;  John  Han- 
cock; Robert  Treat  Paine;  Elbridge  Gerry;  James  Lov- 
ell;  Francis  Dana;  Rufus  King;  Theodore  Sedgwick; 
Samuel  A.  Otis;  George  Thatcher  [Thacher] ;  Samuel 
Holten;  George  Partridge;  Samuel  Osgood;  Artemas 
Ward;  Jonathan  Jackson;  John  Lowell;  James  Sulli- 
van; Nathaniel  Gorham;  Stephen  Higginson;  Nathan 
Dane. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:   John  Hancock. 

TABLET  XX. 
Senators   from    Massachusetts.      1 789-1849. 

OBVERSE.  Picture  of  the  old  capitol.  Autographs: 
Caleb  Strong;  Tristram  Dalton;  George  Cabot;  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick;  Samuel  Dexter  [this  signature  is  of  the 
father];  Benjamin  Goodhue;  Jonathan  Mason;  Dwight 
Foster;  John  Quincy  Adams;  James  Lloyd,  Jr.;  Timo- 
thy Pickering;  J.  B.  Varnum;  Christopher  Gore;  Har- 
rison G.  Otis;  Prentiss  Mellen;  E.  H.  Mills;  Eli  P. 
Ashmun;  Nathaniel  Silsbee;  Daniel  Webster;  J.  Davis; 
Isaac  C  Bates;  Edward  Everett;  Rufus  Choate. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:    Daniel  Webster. 

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TABLET  XXI. 
Massachusetts  Patriots. 

OBVERSE.  Copy,  reduced,  of  a  caricature  of  "Vir- 
tual Representation,  1775."  Prints:  Hancock's  house; 
the  "Old  South."  Autographs:  David  Cheever;  Isaac 
Lothrop;  Elbridge  Gerry;  Perez  Morton;  D.  Jeflfries: 
Henry  Hill;  Oliver  Wendell;  William  Cooper;  Na- 
thaniel Appleton;  Joseph  Hawley;  Jonathan  Mason; 
Tosiah  Waters;  John  Winthrop;  John  Pitts;  Henderson 
Inches;  William  Phillips;  Nathaniel  Barber;  Joseph 
Palmer;  Edmund  Quincy;  James  Prescott;  John  Scol- 
lay. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Action  of  Virginia  on  the 
Stamp  Act;  Patrick  Henry's  speech,  with  sketches  of 
Patrick  Henry  and  Thomas  Jefferson;  Action  of  Vir- 
ginia in  1776.  Prints:  Hanover  Court  House;  Great 
seal  of  Virginia.  Autographs:  James  Otis;  General 
John  Morin  Scott. 

TABLET   XXII. 
Some  of  the  Loyalists. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  Tryon's  Palace;  Allegorical 
picture,  entitled  "Reception  of  the  American  Loyalists 
in  England;"  Dunmore's  Palace.  Portraits:  Governor 
Hutchinson;  James  Rivington.  Autographs:  Governor 
Thomas  Hutchinson;  Governor  Lord  Dunmore;  Tim- 
othy Ruggles;  Colonel  John  Dalrymple;  Governor 
William  Tryon;  Oxenbridge  Thacher  [here  by  mistake, 
he  was  a  Patriot];  Governor  Francis  Bernard;  Andrew 
Oliver;  William  Brattle. 

The  above  list  is  verv  imperfect,  including  only  such  names 
as  were  on  hand  when  the  tablet  was  made  up. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Respecting  departure  of 
Loyalists  from  Boston;  Relative  to  William  Franklin, 
Royal  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  Governor  Tryon,  Gov- 
ernor Lord  Dunmore,  of  Virginia,  and  to  other  Loyal- 
ist leaders. 


TABLET  XXIII. 

The  Court  and  Counsel  who  tried  Captain 
Preston  and  Soldiers. 

Note.  Captain  Preston  was  tried  Oct.  t.'j,  1770,  and 
William  Wemms  and  others,  soldiers  of  the  29th  Regi- 
ment of  Foot,  were  tried  Nov.  27,  1770,  for  the  murder 
of  Crispus  Attucks  and  others,  March  5,  1770,  called  the 
Boston  Massacre. 

The  plate  on  the  obverse  and  the  engraving  on  the 
reverse  were  both  made  by  Paul  Revere,  and  their  dif- 
ference is  the  result  of  the  demands  of  pictorial  repre- 
sentation. 

OBVERSE.  PAUL  REVERE'S  PLAN  OF  THE 
SCENE  OF  THE  BOSTON  MASSACRE,  USED 
AT  THE  TRIAL. 

REVERSE.  Print:  Paul  Revere's  engraving  of  the 
Massacre.  Autographs:  Benjamin  Lynde;  John  Cush- 
ing;  Peter  Oliver;  Edmund  Trowbridge;  Jonathan 
Sewall,  attorney  general;  Samuel  Winthrop,  clerk; 
Robert  Treat  Paine,  Samuel  Quincy,  counsel  for  the 
Crown;  John  Adams,  Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.,  Sampson  Sal- 
ter Blowers,  counsel  for  the  soldiers. 

TABLET   XXIV. 

Boston  Massacre.     1770.    Soldiers'  Petition. 

OBVERSE.  Addressed,  To  the  Honorable  Judges 
of  the  Superior  Court.  Asking  for  their  trial  at  the 
same  time  with  that  of  their  Captain,  dated.  Goal,  Octo- 
ber 24,  1770,  signed:  Hugh  White,  James  Hartigan, 
Matthew  Killroy  (his  mark). 

REVERSE.  Notification  of  town  meeting,  March 
12,  1770,  to  consider,  among  other  matters  enumerated, 
"what  steps  may  be  further  necessary  for  obtaining  a 
particular  account  of  all  proceedings  relative  to  the 
Massacre  in  King  street,"  and  "whether  the  town  will 
take  any  measures  that  a  public  monument  may  be 
erected  on  the  spot  where  the  tragical  scene  was  acted." 
No  monument  has  been  erected  here,  but  the  site  is 
marked  by  a  circle  of  paving  in  the  streetway  near  the 

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north-easterly  corner  of  State  and  Exchange  streets, 
where  the  soldiers  were  drawn  up  and  from  which 
they  fired  on  the  mob. 

TABLET  XXV. 
Some  of  the  Tea  Party.     1773. 

Note.  The  tea  party  was  quite  large,  and  those 
composing  it  were  disguised.  For  obvious  reasons 
their  names  were  concealed  for  many  years,  nor  is  any 
list  of  them  now  known  with  certainty.  Those  below 
are  reputed  to  have  been  of  the  tea  party. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Kennison;  Hewes.  Auto- 
graphs: Joseph  Lee;  Paul  Revere;  Thomas  Melvill; 
Edward  Procter;  Moses  Grant;  Jonathan  Williams. 
Letter  press:  Incidents  of  the  "tea  party,"  with  list  of 
those  assumed  to  have  been  in  the  party;  Copies  of 
hand  bills. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Historical  note  on  the 
Liberty  Tree,  with  picture;  Some  facts  respecting  the 
Continental  Lottery  of  1776,  with  fac-simile  of  ticket; 
The  English  stamp  of  1765;  Note  on  the  Province 
House;  The  Mutiny  Act. 

TABLET  XXVI. 
Committee  of  Safety.     July  13,  1775. 

OBVERSE.  Letter  press:  Letter  of  the  Provincial 
Congress,  April  30,  1775;  The  committee  of  1774.  Auto- 
graphs: John  Hancock;  Dr.  Benjamin  Church,  Jr.; 
Richard  Devens;  Samuel  Holten;  Joseph  Palmer; 
Abraham  Watson;  Azor  Orne;  Benjamin  Greenleaf; 
Nathan  Cushing;  Enoch  Freeman;  B.  White. 

REVERSE.  Old  view  of  Boston  from  Dorchester 
Heights;  Faneuil  Hall,  and  the  ancient  Feather  Store 
in  old  Dock  Square. 

TABLET  XXVIL 

Washington  and  the  Kings. 
OBVERSE.     Portraits:    Washington;  Louis  XVL; 

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George  III.  ("figure,  usual  appearance  of  the  King 
about  1776");  Queen  Charlotte,  from  a  print  by  Wor- 
lidge;  Seals  of  George  II.  and  George  III.;  Print  of 
Great  Seal  of  George  III.,  the  purse  and  Chancellor's 
mace.  Autographs:  George  Washington;  George  II. 
of  England;  Louis  XV.  of  France;  George  III.  of  Eng- 
land; Louis  XVI.  of  France. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  Residence  of  the  Washington 
family;  Tomb  of  the  mother  of  Washington;  Site  of 
Washington's  birthplace;  Pohick  church;  Washington's 
family  vault;  Ruins  of  Potomac  church;  Mt.  Vernon; 
Washington's  writing-case,  sword  and  staff;  Washing- 
ton's bier;  The  sarcophagus  of  Washington;  Statue  of 
Washington;  Arms  of  the  Washington  family. 

TABLET  XXVIII. 
Patriots  of  the  Revolution. 

Note.  The  names  below,  it  is  evident,  are  only 
those  of  a  few  of  the  eminent  patriots  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  all  the  colonies  are  not  represented. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  James  Otis,  Jr.,  and  grouped 
on  either  side,  J.  Rutledge,  Henry,  Hancock,  Adams, 
Trumbull,  E.  Rutledge.  Autographs:  John  Hancock; 
Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.;  James  Otis;  Joseph  Warren;  John 
Adams;  Samuel  Adams;  Thomas  Gushing;  James  War- 
ren; John  Langdon;  Jonathan  Trumbull;  John  Jay; 
Robert  R.  Livingston;  Robert  Morris;  George  Wash- 
ington; Patrick  Henry;  Edmund  Pendleton;  Thomas 
Jefferson;  Edward  Rutledge. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  Faneuil  Hall,  with  autograph 
of  Peter  Faneuil.  Letter  press:  Biographical  notes; 
Sketch  of  Faneuil  Hall. 

TABLET  XXIX. 

At  Lexington  and  Concord.     1775. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  Battle  ground  at  Concord; 
Monument  at  Lexington;  Monument  at  Concord; 
Colonel  Barrett's  house;  British  flag;  Plan  of  the 
movements    at    Concord;    Clark's    house,    Lexington. 

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Portrait:  Earl  Percy.  Autographs:  Duke  of  Northum- 
berland [Lord  Percy];  Lt.  Colonel  Francis  Smith; 
John  Buttrick;  Joseph  Hosmer;  Paul  Revere;  James 
Barrett;  Thomas  Nixon;  Timothy  Pickering,  Jr.;  Rev. 
Jonas  Clarke. 

REVERSE.  Portrait:  Jonathan  Harrington,  at  the 
age  of  ninety,  with  signature  [fac-simile] .  Letter  press: 
Relative  to  the  encounter  at  Lexington,  and  kindred 
matters;  Names  of  the  American  killed  and  wounded. 

Note.  An  original  signature  of  Harrington  is  in  the 
volume  devoted  to  Lexington,  Concord  and  Bunker 
Hill,  which  forms  a  part  of  the  general  Chamberlain 
Collection. 

TABLET  XXX. 

At  Bunker  Hill.     1775. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Warren;  Putnam;  Stark. 
Autographs:  Sir  William  Howe;  Major  John  Small, 
major  of  brigade  and  captain  in  the  North  British  fusil- 
leers;  General  Joseph  Warren;  Colonel  William  Pres- 
cott;  General  Israel  Putnam;  General  John  Stark; 
General  Seth  Pomeroy;  Colonel  Richard  Gridley;  Gen- 
eral Henry  Knox. 

REVERSE.  Map:  Action  on  Breed's  Hill,  June  17, 
1775.  Autographs:  Colonel  Henry  Jackson;  Colonel 
Loammi  Baldwin;  Colonel  J.  Brewer;  Captain  Seth 
Washburn;  Paul  Dudley  Sargent;  Colonel  John 
Brooks;  Colonel  Ebenezer  Bridge;  Colonel  John 
Nixon;  Captain  Hugh  Maxwell;  Michael  McClary. 
Letter  press:  Incidents  of  the  battle;  Biographical  notes. 

TABLET  XXXL 

First  Council  of  War.     1775. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  Washington  Medal;  Washing- 
ton Elm;  Washington's  headquarters;  View  of  Charles- 
town  in  1775;  View  of  the  lines  of  Boston  Neck,  from 
an  English  print,  1777.  Portraits:  General  Joseph  Reed; 
General  Charles  Lee.  Autographs:  George  Washing- 
ton; Artemas  Ward;  Charles  Lee;  Israel  Putnam  [not  a 

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signature];  John  Thomas;  Joseph  Spencer;  John  Sulli- 
van; Nathaniel  Greene;  William  Heath;  Thomas  Mif- 
flin; Joseph  Reed. 

REVERSE.  Old  view  of  Boston  from  Dorchester 
Heights;  Map  of  Boston  with  its  environs,  1776;  Rox- 
bury  Fort.    Letter  press:   Biographical  notes. 

The  above  list  is  very  imperfect,  including  only  such  names 
as  were  on  hand  when  the  tablet  v/as  made  up. 

TABLET  XXXII. 

At  Ticonderoga.     1775. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  Ticonderoga  at  sunset;  Ar- 
nold's residence;  Tomb  of  Ethan  Allen.  Letter  press: 
Biographical  note  on  Ethan  Allen.  Autographs:  Arthur 
St.  Clair;  Ethan  Allen;  Seth  Warner;  Benedict  Arnold. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Relative  to  Crown  Point 
and  Ticonderoga,  and  the  Green  Mountain  Boys;  The 
attack  on  Ticonderoga;  The  evolution  of  Vermont; 
Biographical  notes. 

TABLET  XXXIII. 

In  Canada.     1 775-1 776. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  General  Sullivan;  General 
Montgomery;  General  Wooster;  Colonel  Willett. 
Prints:  Plan  of  Quebec,  upper  town;  St.  John's  Gate; 
Place  where  Arnold  was  wounded;  Montgomery's  mon- 
ument; Cape  Diamond.  Autographs :  Governor  Fred- 
erick Haldimand;  Richard  Montgomery;  John  Sulli- 
van; Benedict  Arnold;  David  Wooster;  Philip  Schuy- 
ler; Henry  Dearborn;  Aaron  Burr;  Marinus  Willett; 
Henry  Livingston. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  Fort  at  Chambly;  Montreal 
and  its  walls  in  1760,  old  French  print;  Map  of  the 
route  through  the  wilderness.  Letter  press:  Incidents; 
Biographical  notes;  Describing  the  spot  where  Mont- 
gomery was  killed. 

TABLET  XXXIV. 
At  Stony  Point.     1779. 
OBVERSE.     Prints:    Wayne's   residence;    Medals; 

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Wayne's  monument.  Portrait:  Wayne.  Map  of  Stony 
Point  and  Verplanck's  Point.  Letter  press:  Description 
ot  the  medals;  Biographical  note;  Anecdotes.  Auto- 
graphs:  Anthony  Wayne;  Colonel  de  Fleury. 

REVERSE.  Portrait:  Major  Andre.  Prints:  Smith's 
house;  Robinson's  house;  Paulding's  monument  and 
St.  Peter's  church;  Van  Wart's  monument;  Captors's 
medal;  Washington's  headquarters  at  Tappan;  Map 
showing  the  scene  of  Arnold's  Treason. 


TABLET  XXXV. 
At  Saratoga.     1777. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  Medals.  Portraits:  Armstrong; 
Lamb;  Burgoyne;  Gates;  Morgan.  Autographs:  Fried- 
rich  L  [Landgraf]  F  [Fiirst]  Hessen  [Duke  of  Hesse]; 
General  John  Burgoyne;  General  William  Phillips; 
Baron  Riedesel;  General  Horatio  Gates;  General  Ben- 
jamin Lincoln;  General  Anthony  Wayne;  General 
Daniel  Morgan;  General  Enoch  Poor;  General  Joseph 
Cilley;  General  William  Whipple;  General  William 
Hull;  General  James  Wilkinson;  General  Henry  Dear- 
born; General  John  Armstrong,  Jr. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  Bemis  Heights,  with  map;  The 
battle  ground.    Letter  press:   Biographical  notes. 

TABLET   XXXVL 
In  the  Southern  Campaigns.     1 780-1 781. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Greene;  Moultrie;  Lincoln; 
Sumter;  Rawdon;  Tarleton;  Pinckney.  Autographs: 
Lord  Cornwallis;  John  Macpherson;  Hastings  (Lord 
Rawdon,  Marquis  of  Hastings);  Banastre  Tarleton; 
William  Moultrie;  Benjamin  Lincoln;  Horatio  Gates; 
Nathaniel  Greene;  Armand,  Marquis  de  la  Rouarie; 
Henry  Lee;  Thomas  Sumter;  Daniel  Morgan;  Otho  H. 
Williams;  William  Smallwood;  John  Eager  Howard; 
Thomas  Pinckney;  Andrew  Pickens. 

REVERSE.    Letter  press:    Biographical  notes. 


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TABLET  XXXVII. 
Andre  and  his  Court  Martial.     1780. 

OBVERSE.  Print:  West  Point  in  1780.  Portraits: 
General  Robert  Howe;  Major  Andre;  Major  Tall- 
madge;  Lord  Stirling;  General  Steuben;  General  Ar- 
nold. Autographs:  Benedict  Arnold;  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton; Benjamin  Tallmadge;  Beverly  Robinson;  John 
Lamb;  Nathaniel  Greene;  Lord  Stirling;  Arthur  St. 
Clair;  Marquis  de  Lafayette;  Robert  Howe;  Baron 
Steuben;  Samuel  H.  Parsons;  James  Clinton;  Henry 
Knox;  John  Glover;  John  Paterson;  Edward  Hand; 
John  Stark;  Jedediah  Huntington;  John  Laurance. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Relative  to  Arnold's  Trea- 
son, and  the  case  of  Andre;  Biographical  notes. 

TABLET  XXXVIIL 
At  Yorktown.     1781. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Medallion,  Washington  and 
Lafayette;  Rochambeau;  Lafayette;  Lord  Howe;  Corn- 
wallis;  D'Estaing.  Autographs :  Lord  Cornwallis;  George 
Washington;  Count  Rochambeau;  Admiral  d'Estaing; 
Admiral  Lord  Howe;  Benjamin  Lincoln;  Lafayette; 
Arthur  St.  Clair;  Alexander  Hamilton;  Duke  de 
Lauzun;  Alexander  Scammell;  Sebastian  Bauman. 
Letter  press:    Biographical  notes. 

REVERSE.  Portraits:  De  Lauzun;  Count  de  Bar- 
ras;  Baron  Viomenil;  Deuxponts;  Count  Mathieu  Du- 
mas. Prints:  Position  of  English  and  French  fleets 
previous  to  the  action.  Map  of  the  siege  of  Yorktown, 
October,  1781.  View  up  the  river.  Picture  of  the  Brit- 
ish surrendering  their  arms  to  General  Washington 
(1781). 

TABLET   XXXIX. 
Naval  Commanders. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Admiral  Hopkins;  Commo- 
dore Barney;  Nicholas  Biddle;  Commodore  Dale; 
Commodore    Barry.      Autographs:     Ezekiel    Hopkins; 

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Hector  McNeil;  John  Paul  Jones;  John  Barry;  John 
F.  Williams;  Joshua  Barney;  Alexander  Murray; 
Thomas  Truxton. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  The  Jersey  Prison  ship;  Ad- 
miralty seal;  Map  of  operations  upon  Rhode  Island  in 
1778;  First  naval  flags;  American  floating  battery. 
Letter  press:  Relative  to  naval  engagements;  Biograph- 
ical notes. 

TABLET   XL. 
Presidents  of  the  Old  Congress.    1 774-1 789. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Peyton  Randolph;  John  Jay; 
Arthur  St.  Clair;  Thomas  Mifflin;  Henry  Laurens; 
Charles  Thomson,  secretary.  Autographs :  Peyton  Ran- 
dolph; Henry  Middleton  [fac-simile] ;  John  Hancock; 
Henry  Laurens;  John  Jay;  Samuel  Huntington; 
Thomas  McKean;  John  Hanson;  Elias  Boudinot; 
Thomas  Mifflin;  Richard  Henry  Lee;  Nathaniel  Gor- 
ham;  Arthur  St.  Clair;  Cyrus  Griffin;  Charles  Thom- 
son, secretary. 

REVERSE.  Prints:  State  House  at  Annapolis; 
Carpenter's  Hall;  Congress  House;  State  House  at 
Philadelphia  as  it  appeared  in  1774;  Walnut  street  front 
of  Philadelphia  State  House  in  1776.  Letter  press:  Bio- 
graphical notes;  Extracts  relative  to  Carpenter's  Hall, 
and  the  character  of  the  men  who  composed  the  First 
Congress. 

TABLET  XLI. 
Diplomatists  of  the  Revolution. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Franklin;  Deane;  Gerard; 
Count  de  Vergennes;  Livingston.  Autographs:  Grand: 
Benjamin  Franklin;  Silas  Deane;  Arthur  Lee;  Robert 
H.  Livingston;  Gerard;  J.  Necker;  De  Castries;  De 
Vergennes;  Saint  Germain;  Beaumarchais;  Leray  de 
Chaumont;  Henry  Laurens.  v 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Biographical  notes;  Ex- 
tracts relative  to  various  diplomatic  proceedings. 

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TABLET  XLII. 

Presidents  of  the  United  States.     1789-1857. 

OBVERSE.  Prints:  The  Capitol;  President's  house. 
Autographs:  George  Washington,  John  Adams,  with  por- 
traits; Thomas  Jefferson,  James  Madison,  with  portraits; 
James  Monroe,  John  Quincy  Adams,  with  portraits;  An- 
drew Jackson,  Martin  Van  Buren,  with  portraits;  Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison^  John  Tyler,  with  portraits;  James 
K.  Polk,  Zachary  Taylor,  with  portraits;  Millard  Fill- 
more, Franklin  Pierce,  with  portraits. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:   Washington  (with  seal). 

TABLET  XLIIL 
Washington  and  his  Cabinet. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  Washington;  Knox;  Hamil- 
ton; Habersham;  Pickering.  Print:  Federal  Hall.  Offi- 
cial seals  of  Washington  and  Knox.  Autographs: 
George  Washington;  Thomas  Jefferson  [Secretary  of 
State];  Edmund  Randolph  [Attorney  General;  Secre- 
tary of  State] ;  Alexander  Hamilton  [Treasury] ;  Oliver 
Wolcott  [Treasury];  Henry  Knox  [War];  Timothy 
Pickering  [Postmaster  General;  War;  State] ;  James 
MeHenry  [War];  Joseph  Habersham  [Postmaster 
General];  Samuel  Osgood  [Postmaster  General];  Wil- 
liam Bradford  [Attorney  General];  Charles  Lee  [At- 
torney General]. 

REVERSE.  Portraits:  Washington;  Adams;  La- 
fayette; Franklin;  Jefferson;  Boudinot;  Jay;  Sherman; 
Hancock;  Joel  Barlow;  Daniel  Humphrey  [should  be 
David  Humphreys];  General  Clinton;  John  Dickinson; 
Aaron  Ogden;  Gouverneur  Morris.  Prints:  Lafayette's 
tomb;  Monticello;  Schuyler's  headquarters.  Seal  of 
John  Adams,  1775.  Autographs:  John  Hancock,  1775; 
John  Adams,  1825.  Letter  Press:  Biographical  notes; 
Anecdotes  of  Hamilton. 

TABLET  XLIV. 
Washington's  Administration.   1789-97.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Portrait:   Washington.    Autographs:   George  Wash- 
Si 


ington;  John  Adams  [Vice  President];  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son [Secretary  of  State] ;  Edmund  Randolph  [Attorney 
General ;  State] ;  Alexander  Hamilton  [Treasury] ;  Oli- 
ver Wolcott  [Treasury] ;  Henry  Knox  [War] ;  Timothy 
Pickering  [Postmaster  General;  War;  State];  James 
McHenry  [War] ;  Samuel  Osgood  [Postmaster  Gen- 
eral]; Joseph  Habersham  [Postmaster  General];  Wil- 
liam Bradford  [Attorney  General] ;  Charles  Lee  [At- 
torney General]. 

Adams's  Administration.  1 797-1801.  [On 
Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Adams.  Autographs:  John  Adams;  Thomas 
Jefferson  [Vice-President] ;  Timothy  Pickering  [State] ; 
John  Marshall  [State];  Oliver  Wolcott  [Treasury]; 
Samuel  Dexter  [Treasury;  War];  James  McHenry 
[War] ;  Roger  Griswold  [War] ;  George  Cabot  [Navy] ; 
Benjamin  Stoddert  [Navy] ;  Joseph  Habersham  [Post- 
master General];  Charles  Lee  [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  XLV. 

Jefferson's  Administration.  1801-1809.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Portrait:  Jefferson.  Autographs:  Thomas  Jefferson; 
Aaron  Burr  [Vice-President] ;  George  Clinton  [Vice- 
President]  ;  James  Madison  [State] ;  Samuel  Dexter 
[Treasury];  Albert  Gallatin  [Treasury];  Henry  Dear- 
born [War] ;  Benjamin  Stoddert  [Navy] ;  Robert  Smith 
[Navy];  Jacob  Crowninshield  [Navy];  Joseph  Haber- 
sham [Postmaster  General] ;  Gideon  Granger  [Post- 
master General] ;  Levi  Lincoln  [Attorney  General] ; 
John  Breckenridge  [Attorney  General] ;  Caesar  A.  Rod- 
ney [Attorney  General]. 

IVIadison's  Administration.  1809-17.  [On 
Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Madison.  Autographs:  James  Madison; 
George    Clinton     [Vice-President];     Elbridge     Gerry 

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[Vice-President];  Robert  Smith  [State];  James  Mon- 
roe [State;  War];  Albert  Gallatin  [Treasury];  George 
W.  Campbell  [Treasury] ;  Alexander  J.  Dallas  [Treas- 
ury] ;  William  Eustis  [War] ;  John  Armstrong  [War] ; 
William  H.  Crawford  [Treasury] ;  Paul  Hamilton 
[Navy] ;  William  Jones  [Navy] ;  B.  W.  Crowninshield 
[Navy];  Gideon  Granger  [Postmaster  General];  Re- 
turn J.  Meigs  [Postmaster  General] ;  Csesar  A.  Rodney 
[Attorney  General] ;  William  Pinkney  [Attorney  Gen- 
eral] ;  Richard  Rush  [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  XLVI. 

Monroe's  Administration.  1817-25.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Portrait:  James  Monroe.  Autographs:  James  Mon- 
roe; Daniel  D.  Tompkins  [Vice-President];  John 
Quincy  Adams  [State];  William  H.  Crawford  [Treas- 
ury] ;  George  Graham  [War] ;  Isaac  Shelby  [War] ; 
John  C.  Calhoun  [War] ;  B.  W.  Crowninshield  [Navy] ; 
John  Rodgers  [Navy] ;  Smith  Thompson  [Navy] ;  Sam- 
uel L.  Southard  [Navy];  Return  J.  Meigs  [Postmaster 
General] ;  John  McLean  [Postmaster  General] ;  Rich- 
ard Rush  [Attorney  General] ;  William  Wirt  [Attorney 
General]. 

Adams's  Administration.  1825-29.  [On 
Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Adams.  Autographs:  John  Quincy  Adams; 
John  C.  Calhoun  [Vice-President] ;  Henry  Clay  [State] ; 
Richard  Rush  [Treasury];  James  Barbour  [War]; 
Peter  B.  Porter  [War];  Samuel  L.  Southard  [Navy]; 
John  McLean  [Postmaster  General];  William  Wirt 
[Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  XLVII. 

Jackson's  Administration.  1829-37.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Portrait:  Jackson.  Autographs:  Andrew  Jackson; 
John  C  Calhoun  [Vice-President] ;  Martin  Van  Buren 

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[State;  Vice-President];  Edward  Livingston  [State]; 
Louis  McLane  [Treasury;  State;  Treasury];  John 
Forsyth  [State] ;  Samuel  B.  Ingram  [Treasury] ;  Wil- 
liam J.  Duane  [Treasury] ;  Roger  B.  Taney  [Attorney 
General;  Treasury] ;  Levi  Woodbury  [Navy;  Treasury] ; 
John  H.  Eaton  [War] ;  Lewis  Cass  [War] ;  John  Branch 
[Navy];  Mahlon  Dickerson  [Navy];  William  T.  Barry 
[Postmaster  General] ;  Amos  Kendall  [Postmaster  Gen- 
eral] ;  John  McPherson  Berrien  [Attorney  General] ; 
Benjamin  F.  Butler  [War;  Attorney  General]. 

Van  Buren's  Administration.  1837-41.  [On 
Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Van  Buren.  Autographs:  Martin  Van 
Buren;  Richard  M.  Johnson  [Vice-President];  John 
Forsyth  [State] ;  Levi  Woodbury  [Treasury] ;  Joel  R. 
Poinsett  [War];  Mahlon  Dickerson  [Navy];  James  K. 
Paulding  [Navy] ;  Amos  Kendall  [Postmaster  Gen- 
eral] ;  John  M.  Niles  [Postmaster  General] ;  Benjamin 
F.  Butler  [Attorney  General] ;  Felix  Grundy  [Attorney 
General];  Henry  D.  Gilpin  [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET   XLVIII. 

Harrison's  Administration.  1841.  [On  Ob- 
verse.] 

Portrait:  Harrison.  Autographs:  William  Henry 
Harrison;  John  Tyler  [Vice-President];  Daniel  Web- 
ster [State] ;  Thomas  Ewing  [Treasury] ;  John  Bell 
[War] ;  George  E.  Badger  [Navy] ;  Francis  Granger 
[Postmaster  General];  John  J.  Crittenden  [Attorney 
General]. 

Tyler's  Administration.  1841-45.  [On  Re- 
verse.] 

Portrait:  Tyler.  Autographs:  John  Tyler;  Daniel 
Webster  [State];  Abel  P.  Upshur  [State;  Navy];  John 
C.  Calhoun  [State];  Walter  Forward  [Treasury];  John 
C.  Spencer  [Treasury;  War];  George  M.  Bibb  [Treas- 

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ury] ;  James  M.  Porter  [War] ;  William  Wilkins  [War] ; 
David  Henshaw  [Navy];  Thomas  W.  Gilmer  [Navy]; 
John  Y.  Mason  [Navy] ;  Charles  A.  Wickliffe  [Post- 
master General] ;  Hugh  S.  Legare  [Attorney  General] ; 
John  Nelson  [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  XLIX. 

Polk's  Administration.  1845-49.  [On  Ob- 
verse.] 

Portrait:  Polk.  Autographs:  James  K.  Polk;  George 
M.  Dallas  [Vice-President];  James  Buchanan  [State]; 
Robert  J.  Walker  [Treasury] ;  William  L.  Marcy  [War] ; 
George  Bancroft  [Navy];  John  Y.  Mason  [Attorney 
General;  Navy];  Cave  Johnson  [Postmaster  General]; 
Nathan  Clifford  [Attorney  General] ;  Isaac  Toucey  [At- 
torney General]. 

Taylor's    Administration.       1849-50.       [On 

Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Taylor.  Autographs:  Zachary  Taylor;  Mil- 
lard Fillmore  [Vice-President];  John  M.  Clayton 
[State];  William  M.  Meredith  [Treasury];  Thomas 
Corwin  [Treasury];  George  W.  Crawford  [War]; 
Thomas  Ewing  [Interior];  William  B.  Preston  [Navy] ; 
Jacob  Collamer  [Postmaster  General];  Reverdy  John- 
son [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  L. 

Fillmore's  Administration.  1850-53.  [On 
Obverse.] 

Portrait:  Fillmore.  Autographs:  Millard  Fillmore; 
Daniel  Webster  [State];  Edward  Everett  [State]; 
Thomas  Corwin  [Treasury] ;  Charles  M.  Conrad  [War] ; 
William  A.  Graham  [Navy] ;  Thomas  M.  T.  McKennan 
[appointed,  Interior,  declined  to  accept] ;  Alexander  H. 
H.  Stuart  [Interior];  John  P.  Kennedy  [Navy];  Na- 
than K.  Hall  [Postmaster  General] ;  S.  D.  Hubbard 
[Postmaster  General];  John  J.  Crittenden  [Attorney 
General]. 

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Pierce's  Administration.     1853-57.     [On  Re- 
verse.] 

Portrait:  Pierce.  Autographs:  Franklin  Pierce;  Wil- 
liam R.  King  [Vice-President] ;  William  L.  Marcy 
[State];  James  Guthrie  [Treasury];  Jefferson  Davis 
[War] ;  James  C.  Dobbin  [Navy] ;  James  Campbell 
[Postmaster  General] ;  Robert  McClelland  [Interior] ; 
Caleb  Gushing  [Attorney  General]. 

TABLET  LI. 

Buchanan's  Administration.     1857-61.     [On 

Obverse.] 

Portrait:  Buchanan.  Autographs:  James  Buchanan; 
John  C.  Breckenridge  [Vice-President] ;  Lewis  Cass 
[State] ;  Howell  Cobb  [Treasury] ;  Philip  F.  Thomas 
[Treasury];  John  A.  Dix  [Treasury];  John  B.  Floyd 
[War];  Isaac  Toucey  [Navy];  Jacob  Thompson  [Inte- 
rior]; Aaron  V.  Brown  [Postmaster  General];  Horatio 
King  [Postmaster  General] ;  Jeremiah  S.  Black  [Attor- 
ney General];  Edwin  M.  Stanton  [Attorney  General]. 

Lincoln's   Administration.      1861-65.      [On 

Reverse.] 

Portrait:  Lincoln.  Autographs:  Abraham  Lincoln 
Autograph  also  of  Mary  Lincoln];  Hannibal  Hamlin 
Vice-President] ;  William  H.  Seward  [State] ;  Salmon 
:?.  Chase  [Treasury];  William  Pitt  Fessenden  [Treas- 
ury]; Hugh  McCulloch  [Treasury];  Simon  Cameron 
[War] ;  Edwin  M.  Stanton  [War] ;  Gideon  Welles 
[Navy];  Caleb  B.  Smith  [Interior] ;  John  P.  Usher  [In- 
terior] ;  James  Harlan  [Interior] ;  Edward  Bates  [At- 
torney General];  James  Speed  [Attorney  General]; 
Montgomery  Blair  [Postmaster  General] ;  William  Den- 
nison  [Postmaster  General]. 

TABLET   LII. 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States. 

OBVERSE.    Portraits:  John  Jay;  Oliver  Ellsworth. 
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Autographs:  John  Jay  [Chief  Justice  1789-95];  John 
Rutledge  [1789-91;  Chief  Justice  1795];  William  Cush- 
ing  [1789-1810];  Robert  H.  Harrison  [1789];  James 
Wilson  [1789-98];  John  Blair  [1789-96];  James  Iredell 
[1790-99] ;  Thomas  Johnson  [1790-93] ;  William  Pater- 
son  [1793-1806];  Samuel  Chase  [1796-1811];  Oliver 
Ellsworth  [Chief  Justice  1796-1801];  Bushrod  Washing- 
ton [1798-1821];  Alfred  Moore  [1799-1804];  John  Mar- 
shall [1801-30];  William  Johnson  [1804-34];  Thomas 
Todd  [1807-26];  B:  Livingston  [1807-23];  Gabriel 
Duval  [181 1-34];  Joseph  Story  [181 1-45];  Smith 
Thompson  [1823-45]. 

REVERSE.  Portraits:  John  Marshall;  Roger  B. 
Taney.  Autographs:  Robert  Trimble  [1826-29];  John 
McLean  [1829-61];  Henry  Baldwin  [1830-46];  John 
M.  Wayne  [1835-67];  Roger  B.  Taney  [Chief  Justice 
1836-64];  Philip  P.  Barbour  [1836-41];  John  Catron 
[1837-65] ;  John  McKinley  [1837-52] ;  Peter  V.  Daniel 
[1841-60];  Samuel  Nelson  [1845-1872];  Levi  Woodbury 
[1845-51];  Salmon  P.  Chase  [Chief  Justice,  1864-1870]; 
Robert  C.  Grier  [1846-70];  Benjamin  R.  Curtis  [1851- 
57];  James  A.  Campbell  [1853-56];  Nathan  Clifford 
[185&-1881];  Noah  H.  Swayne  [1862-1881];  Samuel  F. 
Miller  [1862-1890];  David  Davis  [1862-1877];  Stephen 
J.  Field  [1863-  ];  William  Strong  [1870-1880];  Joseph 
P.  Bradley  [1870-1892]. 

TABLET  LIII. 

Speakers  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States. 

OBVERSE.  Autographs:  William  Augustus  Muhl- 
enberg; Jonathan  Trumbull;  Jonathan  Dayton;  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick;  Nathaniel  Mason;  J.  B.Varnum;  Henry 
Clay;  Langdon  Cheves;  John  W.  Taylor;  Philip  P.  Bar- 
bour; A.  Stephenson;  John  Bell;  James  K.  Polk;  R.  M. 
T.  Hunter;  John  White;  J.  W.  Jones;  John  W.  Davis; 
Robert  C.  Winthrop;  Howell  Cobb;  Linn  Boyd;  Na- 
thaniel P.  Banks;  James  L.  Orr;  William  Pennington; 
Galusha  A.  Grow;  Schuyler  Colfax. 

REVERSE.    Portrait:    Henry  Clay. 

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TABLET  LIV. 

Revolutionary  Officers.     1 775-1 783. 

Note.  The  names  below  are  only  those  of  a  few 
of  equally  meritorious  officers  who  would  have  been 
added  had  their  signatures  been  in  the  collection  un- 
attached to  valuable  papers. 

OBVERSE.  Portraits:  General  Muhlenberg;  Colo- 
nel Smith;  Colonel  Barton;  General  C.  C.  Pinckney; 
General  Gansevoort.  Autographs:  Peter  Muhlenberg; 
Rufus  Putnam;  William  Maxwell;  Elias  Dayton;  James 
Thacher;  William  Barton;  Abraham  Ten  Broeck;  John 
Greaton;  Charles  Scott;  Morgan  Lewis;  Joseph  Frye; 
William  Grayson;  Alexander  McDougall;  John  Whet- 
comb. 

REVERSE.  Print:  Seal  of  the  Board  of  War. 
Letter  press:  Organization  of  the  Board  of  War  and  its 
successor,  the  Secretary  of  War;  Biographical  notes. 

TABLET  LV. 
Statesmen.     [On  Obverse.] 

Note.  The  classification  of  the  group  below,  and 
of  several  that  follow,  has  no  significance.  The  names 
are  here  simply  because  they  were  found  in  the  collec- 
tion as  mere  parts  or  fragments,  or  attached  to  worth- 
less papers. 

Autographs:  Lord  Erskine,  George  Canning,  with 
portraits;  Sir  Robert  Peel,  Lord  Melbourne,  with  por- 
traits; Earl  Grey,  Duke  of  Wellington,  with  portraits; 
Lord  Brougham,  Daniel  O'Connell,  with  portraits; 
Henry  Clay,  Daniel  Webster,  with  portraits;  John  C. 
Calhoun,  Lewis  Cass,  with  portraits;  Silas  Wright,  Jr., 
Thomas  H.  Benton,  with  portraits;  Edward  Everett, 
William  H.  Seward,  with  portraits. 

Statesmen  and  Others.     [On  Reverse.] 

Autographs:  Samuel  Pepys;  Earl  Danby;  Earl  Go- 
dolphin;  Stephen  Fox;  Charles  Montague;  Sir  Robert 
Walpole;  Middlesex;  Henry  Fox;  Dunk  Halifax;  Wil- 
liam Wyndham;  Lord  George  Bridges  Rodney;  Lord 

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Edward  Pellew;  Fisher  Ames;  DeWitt  Clinton;  Wil- 
liam Wirt;  Jeremiah  Mason;  Albert  Gallatin;  William 
H.  Crawford;  John  McLean;  Nicholas  Biddle;  Levi 
Woodbury;  John  Forsyth;  John  Bell;  James  Buchanan; 
James  Shields. 

TABLET  LVI. 
Thomas  Gray,  of  the  Elegy. 

OBVERSE.  Autograph  and  Portrait  (with  piece  of 
Gray's  writing)  on  title  page  of  the  Bibliotheque  His- 
torique  de  la  France. 

REVERSE.    Letter  press:   Biographical  sketch. 

TABLET  LVIL 
Some  of  the  Continental  Congress.     1774- 

1789. 

Note.     See  note  to  Tablet  LV. 

OBVERSE.  Old  print  of  the  Congress.  Autographs: 
John  Sullivan;  Nathaniel  Folsom;  Thomas  Gushing; 
Robert  Treat  Paine;  Stephen  Hopkins;  Samuel  Ward; 
Roger  Sherman;  John  Jay;  Philip  Livingston;  John 
Alsop;  William  Floyd;  Henry  Wisner;  Francis  Lewis; 
David  Ramsay;  Ralph  Izard;  John  Lewis  Gervais; 
James  Kinsey;  William  Livingston;  Stephen  Crane; 
Thomas  Mifflin;  Joseph  Galloway;  John  Morton; 
Thomas  McKean;  Samuel  Chase;  Caesar  Rodney; 
Richard  Smith;  Isaac  Low;  Benjamin  Harrison;  Na- 
than Dane;  Samuel  A.  Otis;  Nathaniel  Peabody. 

REVERSE.  Letter  press:  Articles  of  Association, 
etc.,  adopted  in  Congress,  October  20,  1774,  with  sig- 
natures. 

TABLET  LVIII. 

Seals  of  Eminent  Persons. 

Note.  The  seals  on  this  and  the  followmg  Tablets 
are  arranged  without  classification,  excepting  by  size 
and  color. 

OBVERSE.  Rev.  William  Bell,  prebendary  of  West- 
minister; Dr.  Thomas  Raffles,  of  Liverpool;  Edward 

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Livingston,  Secretary  of  State,  President  Jackson's  ad- 
ministration; Jacob  Bryant,  author  of  "Ancient  My- 
thology;" Dr.  Benjamin  Heath,  Fellow  of  Eton  College; 
Rev.  Michael  Tyson,^  "Ode  to  Peace;"  Rev.  William 
Gilpin,  "Essay  on  Prints;"  James  Buchanan,  President 
of  the  United  States;  Rev.  Thomas  Kerrich,  University 
of  Cambridge;  Rev.  Thomas  Percy,  D.D.,  "Percy's 
ReHques;"  John  Singleton  Copley,  painter;  James 
Montgomery,  poet;  John  Marshall,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
United  States,  1801-36;  William  H.  Seward,  Secretary 
of  State,  Lincoln's  and  Johnson's  administrations;  Dr. 
John  Griscom,  Professor  of  Rutgers  Medical  College; 
Rev.  Horace  Holley,  D.D.,  President  of  Transylvania 
University,  Ky. ;  Anna  Letitia  Barbauld,  author;  Rev. 
Michael  Tyson ;^  George  Prettyman,  D.D.,  Bishop  of 
Winchester;  Cyril  Jackson,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Oxford; 
Andrew  Stevenson,  minister  to  England,  1836-41; 
Thomas  Gaisford,  Dean  of  Christ  Church;  Rev.  Thomas 
Drake,  F.  S.  A.;  C.  M.  Sutton,  D.D.,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury;  L.  Bagot,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Norwich;  John 
Saffin,  Massachusetts  Judge,  1700;  General  James  War- 
ren, of  Plymouth,  Revolutionary  Patriot;  Rev.  Thomas 
Drake,'  F.  S.  A.;  Rev.  William  Howley,  D.D.,  Bishop 
of  London;  Timothy  Pickering,  Secretary  of  War,  1794, 
Washington's  administration,  afterward  Secretary  of 
State;  George  I.,  of  England;  Sir  William  Johnson, 
New  York;  Seal  of  Albany,  1752;  Richard  Rush, 
Minister  to  England,  1817-25;  Samuel  Dexter,  Secre- 
tary of  War,  1800,  Adams's  administration. 

REVERSE.  C.  J.  Loudon,  botanist;  James  Sher- 
lock, Sheriff  in  1687;  John  Randolph,  father  of  John  of 
Roanoke;  Henry  Nelson  Coleridge,  author;  Capell 
LofTt,^  lawyer,  editor,  author  of  "Anthology  of  Son- 
nets;" Rev.  John  Mitford,  editor  and  poet;  Dr.  John 
Torrey,  botanist  and  chemist;  Robert  Treat  Paine, 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence;  Duke  of 
Wellington,  as  Prime  Minister;  John  Gushing,  Judge, 
1747-1771;  Major  John  Cartwright,  political  reformer; 
James  Northcote,  sculptor;  R.  R.  Gurley,  philanthro- 
pist; Peter  Oliver,  Chief  Justice,  Massachusetts,  1772- 
75;  Martin  Madan,  D.D.,  "Letter  to  Dr.  Priestley;" 
Hon.  Daines  Barrington,  statesman  and  naturalist;  Dr. 

1  Two  seals,  of  different  patterns. 

2  Duplicate. 

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Benjamin  Silliman,  of  Yale  College;  Thomas  Percy, 
D.D.,  "Percy's  Reliques;"  Bishop  James  Madison,  of 

William   and    Mary   College;    Anderson;    Rev. 

Dr.  Charles  Lowell,  of  Boston,  West  Church;  Rev. 
George  Costard,  "History  of  Armstrong;"  Dr.  Thomas 
Percy,  D.D.;"*  James  D.  Dunham,  "Christianity  the 
Friend  of  Man;"  Capell  Loflft,^  lawyer  and  editor; 
Rev.  Michael  Tyson ;^  Thomas  Moore,  poet;  Michael 
Lort,  D.D.,^  Greek  professor,  Cambridge;  St.  George 
Tucker,  "Life  of  Jefferson;"  Michael  Lort,  D.D.;^ 
Thomas  Percy,  D.D.;'  William  Wirt,  Attorney  Gen- 
eral, Monroe's  administration;  Thomas  Pownall,  Gov- 
ernor, Massachusetts,  1757-60;  Professor  Samuel  F.  B. 
Morse,  founder  of  the  American  system  of  electro- 
magnetic telegraph;  George  Stevens,  Shakespearian 
scholar. 

TABLET  LIX. 
Seals  of  Eminent  Persons. 

OBVERSE.  John  Gibson;  David  M.  Moir;  Bishop 
Heber;  Dr.  Charles  Beck;  Douglas  Jerrold;  Major 
Agnew;  David  Maclise;  Dr.  Charles  Beck;  Lord 
Brougham;  Lord  Schuckbright;^  Westmacott,  artist; 
Earl  Haddington;  Sir  George  Gray;  Sir  Robert  Peel; 
Dr.    McCrie;    Sir  John   Sinclair;    Sir   Francis    Head; 

Schmidt;   Rev.   Edward  Nares;   Rev.   Rowland 

Hill;  Richard  Peters;  Mr.  Justice  Willes;  William 
Pickering,  publisher;  Earl  Dalhousie;  Robert  C.  Win- 
throp;  Joseph  Cottle;  Lord  Schuckbright;^  Leverett 
Saltonstall;  Mr.  Justice  Vaughan;  Dr.  Aaron  Bancroft; 
George  II.;  John  Cotton  Smith. 

REVERSE.  Victoria;  Alaric  A.  Watts;  Daniel 
Webster;  Alexander  H.  Everett;  Gneismann;  Sir  Henry 
Torrens;  Henry  Clay;  Lord  Collingwood;  Governor 
George  Coleston;  Allenstein;  Edward  Livingston;  Jo- 
siah  Quincy,  3d;  Count  Bruhl;  John  Flaxman;  Lord 
Nelson;  Marshal  Victor;  Xavier;  Sir  John  Graham; 
Schuyler    Colfax;    Lord   Donerail;   Von   Hardenberg; 

1  Two  seals,  of  different  patterns, 

2  Three  seals  (one  on  the  obverse),  of  different  patterns. 

'  Duplicate  of  second  seal  of  Tyson,  on  Tablet  LVIII,  ob- 
verse. 

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Marshal  Oudinot;  Louis  XVIII.;  Johane;  Hannah 
More;  Prince  August;  Lord  Canning;  George  I.;  Com- 
modore John  Rogers;  Marshal  Jourdan. 

TABLET   LX. 
Seals  of  Eminent  Persons. 

OBVERSE.  Lord  Melbourne;  Savigny;  Mr.  Justice 
John  B.  Byles;  Frederick  WilHam,  of  Prussia;  Lord 
Macaulay;  James  Steel;  Sir  William  Grant;  George 
Bancroft;  Governor  Edward  Winslow;  Earl  Hadding- 
ton; Bishop  Wainwright;  Canova,  sculptor;  Mr.  Justice 
Wines,  1840;  Benjamin  Franklin;  Fiirth;  William  Play- 
fair;  Alexander  v.  Humboldt;  Dr.  N.  W.  Appleton;  Sir 
William  Drummond;  Lord  Bolingbroke,  1715;  Moltke, 
civilian;  Sir  Edmund  Head;  Abbe  Barthelemy;  Rev.  T. 
R.  Malthus;  Sir  Walter  Scott;  John  Joseph,  Saxony; 
Lord  Maberley;  Lord  Macaulay;  Sir  John  Sinclair; 
Lord  John  Russell. 

REVERSE.  Wellington;  Sir  Edward  Coke;  Con- 
yers  Middleton;  Robert  Mason,  New  Hampshire,  1680; 
Diderot;  William  E.  Burton;  Fenelon;  Henry  Howard, 
artist;  George  Rose;  W.  H.  Ainsworth;  Leonard 
Woods,  Jr.;  Wellington;^  Turner,  painter;  Henry  Kirk 
White;  Schleirmacher;  Lord  Gambler;  Reichenbach; 
Richard  Varick;  Paul  Barras;  Byfalk;  Zollius;  Alex- 
ander Chalmers;  Lady  Charlotte  Bury;  Professor  God- 
dard.  Brown  University;  Von  Nagler;  Sir  W.  Hamil- 
ton; Jonathan  Williams,  Jr.;  Francis  Dana,  Jr.;  John 
Pierpont;  Josiah  Tucker,  Dean  of  Gloucester;  Liv- 
ingston; Colonel  John  Laurens;  Earl  Charlemont;  Jo- 
seph T.  Buckingham;  John  Wilmont. 

TABLET  LXL 
Seals  of  Eminent  Persons. 

OBVERSE.  Edward  Everett;'  Sir  John  Ross;  Dor- 
othy L.  Dix;  Dr.  John  Anderson;  Sir  Harry  Nicholas; 
Earl  Rochester;  Alexander  J.  Downing;  Serjeant  Chan- 
nell;  Edward  Everett;'  Rev.  Henry  Melville;  Bariy 
Cornwall;  Amelia  Opie;  Mr.  Justice  Brownell;  Welcher; 

1  Duplicate. 

2  Two  seals,  different  patterns. 

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J.  H.  Allen;  Jared  Sparks;  J.  B.  Lane;  W.  Eden,  Lord 
Auckland;    Charles  Finch;   Justice  J.  B.  Byles;^   Mary- 
Shelley;  Lord  Plunkett;  Charles  Grant;  Prince  Hoare. 
REVERSE.    Blank. 

TABLET   LXII. 

Seals  of  the  Signers  [of  the  Declarcttion  of 
Independence]  and  Others. 

OBVERSE.  Rufus  King,  1787;  Richard  Henry  Lee, 
1776;  Nicholas  Oilman,  1787;  John  Hancock,  1776; 
John  Adams,  1776;  Benjamin  Franklin,  1776;  Roger 
Sherman,  1776;  General  Burgoyne,  1777;  William  Wil- 
liams, 1776;  Elias  Boudinot,  1783;  Richard  Mont- 
gomery, 177s;  Oliver  Wolcott,  1776;  Ralph  Izard,  1779; 
George  Ross,  1776;  Henry  Laurens,  1779;  Baron  Vi- 
omenil,  1781;  Sir  Adam  Ferguson;  Lord  Shelburne, 
1783;  C.  C.  Pinckney;  General  Lafayette;  Charles 
Pinckney. 

REVERSE.  Fac-simile  of  the  signatures  to  the 
Declaration  of  Independence. 

TABLET  LXIIL 

[Other]  Original  Seals. 

OBVERSE.  Martin  F.  Tupper;  Samuel  J.  Arnold; 
Earl  of  Egremont;  Governor  Belcher,  1730;  Lord  Aber- 
deen; Lord  Palmerston;  Sir  James  Mackintosh;  W.  H. 
Ainsworth;  Governor  Stoughton,  1694;  Lady  Hester 
Stanhope;  Governor  Joseph  Dudley,  1702;  R.  Plummer 
Ward;  Lady  Wellesley;  Lord  Brougham;  Dr.  Bowring, 
poet. 

REVERSE.  Marshal  Massena;  Chev.  Hulsemann; 
Earl  Grey,  1830;  Lord  Whitworth,  1802;  Earl  Shaftes- 
bury, 1834;  Prince  of  Canino;  Francis  Lieber;' Governor 
Paris,  of  Maine;  Francis  Lieber;^  Lord  Berwick,  1823; 
Sir  Alexander  McKenzie;  Earl  Bridgewater;  Sir  Fran- 
cis Freeling;  Paul  Hamilton,  South  Carolina;  Lord 
Yarboro. 


iTwo  seals,  one  on  Tablet  LX. 
2  Two  seals,  different  patterns. 


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APPENDIX. 

The  correspondence  between  Judge  Cham- 
berlain and  the  Board  of  Trustees,  accom- 
panying the  transfer,  was  as  follows: 

Chelsea,  February  14,  1893. 
To  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Library: 

Gentlemen:  I  propose  to  leave  to  the  Boston  Public 
Library,  by  testamentary  bequest,  my  collection  of  his- 
torical documents,  manuscripts,  autographs,  portraits, 
and  engravings  connected  therewith,  together  with  a 
few  printed  volumes,  and  some  matters  of  personal  in- 
terest to  me,  provided  the  Trustees,  after  a  more  mature 
consideration  of  the  subject,  are  still  willing  to  accept 
the  same  agreeably  to  an  informal  understanding  ex- 
pressed at  their  meeting,  January  17,  1893.  That  is  to 
say,  that  the  Trustees  will  furnish  the  room  in  the  new 
building,  connected  with  the  librarian's  room,  substan- 
tially in  accord  with  the  plan  prepared  by  Alex.  S. 
Jenney,  and  set  said  room  apart  as  the  permanent  home 
of  said  collection,  to  be  and  forever  remain  in  the  sole 
custody  of  the  librarian,  under  the  Trustees. 

From  the  above  conditions  are  to  be  excepted  the 
framed  Address  to  the  King,  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, the  Articles  of  Confederation,  and  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States,  which  would  be  properly 
exhibited  on  the  walls  of  some  more  public  room.^ 

While  I  desire  to  retain  the  property  of  the  collection 
during  my  life,  it  is  my  wish,  nevertheless,  to  transfer 
to  the  Library  at  once  such  portions  of  it  as  are  in  com- 

iWith  Judge  Chamberlain's  consent  the  Tablets  described 
above  have  been  removed  to  the  room  for  Younger  Readers, 
and  are  displayed  below  the  four  great  Documents  on  the  south 
wall. 

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pleted  form,  and  the  remainder  as  soon  as  it  can  be 
completed. 

The  collection  will  need  an  index  and  binding;  and 
as  I  am  familiar  with  the  requirements,  I  think  it  would 
be  well  to  have  one  or  more  volumes  of  each  division 
bound  as  soon  as  may  be,  to  serve  as  examples  for  the 
remaining  volumes. 

It  is  my  purpose  to  make  the  collection  as  complete 
as  I  may;  and  to  that  end,  after  any  portion  of  it  is 
transferred  to  the  Library,  I  shall  desire  free  access  to 
it  at  suitable  times. 

Respectfully, 
(Signed)  Mellen  Chamberlain. 

Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston. 
To  the  Hon.  Mellen  Chamberlain: 

Dear  Sir:  It  is  my  pleasant  duty  to  inform  you  that 
I  am  instructed  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library 
of  the  City  of  Boston,  that  they  accept  with  great  grat- 
itude your  proposed  testamentary  gift  of  your  unique 
and  valuable  "collection  of  historical  documents,  auto- 
graphs, portraits,  and  engravings  connected  therewith, 
together  with  certain  printed  volumes,"  and  that  they 
agree  to  perform  all  the  conditions  set  forth  in  your 
letter  of  February  14,  1893,  to  which  the  gift  is  made 
subject. 

Permit  me  to  improve  the  opportunity  to  express 
my  own  appreciation  of  the  great  value  of  your  pro- 
posed donation,  and  assure  you  that  all  the  conditions 
referred  to  will  be  faithfully  performed.  The  Trustees 
have  already  commenced  the  work  of  preparing  a  suit- 
able room  in  the  new  Library  building  for  the  accom- 
modation of  the  collection  as  you  are  pleased  to  allow 
them  present  possession  of  the  same. 
Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)  Frederick  O.  Prince, 

March  28,  1893.  President  pro  tem. 


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